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Douglas Matthew Brackenridge

In memory of:

Sergeant Douglas Matthew Brackenridge

February 7, 1943

Military Service


Service Number:

R/79608

Age:

21

Force:

Air Force

Unit:

Royal Canadian Air Force

Division:

408 Sqdn.

Additional Information


Son of John Gordon and Georgia Brackenridge, of Peterborough, Ontario, Canada.

Commemorated on Page 139 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:

GUIDEL COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Morbihan, France

Grave Reference:

Row 4. Grave 2.

Location:

Guidel is a village in the Department of the Morbihan, 60 kilometres west-north-west of Vannes, the chief town of the Department, and 10 kilometres north-west of Lorient. It lies 2 kilometres off the Lorien-Quimperle Road. The GUIDEL COMMUNAL CEMETERY is on the north-eastern side of the village on the road to Gestel, opposite a market square.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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  • Memorial– Sergeant Douglas Matthew Brackenridge is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
  • Memorial– Sergeant Douglas Matthew Brackenridge is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
  • Memorial– Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens

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