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Flying Officer Gordon Dennis MacDonald

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Military service

Service number: 42265
Age: 23
Rank: Flying Officer
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: 430 (Fighter) Squadron
Birth: August 28, 1930 Matsqui, British Columbia
Enlistment: September 5, 1951 British Columbia
Death: May 12, 1954 Grostenquin, France

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Section 5 Row A Grave 11
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Son of Gordon and Eleanor of Vancouver, British Columbia. Husband of Barbara MacDonald. Brother of Joan MacDonald.

CHOLOY WAR CEMETERY Meurthe-et-Moselle, France

Choloy is a village and commune in the Department of the Meurthe-et-Moselle, 28 kilometres west of Nancy and some 5 kilometres west of Toul, a town on the N4 road from Paris to Nancy. The village is south of the River Moselle on the minor road (D11B) from Toul to the neighbouring village of Foug. The CHOLOY WAR CEMETERY is 3 kilometres west of Toul on the north side of the D11B road.

The Choloy War Cemetery is the last resting place of casualties from the First and Second World Wars and is managed by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. It is also the final resting place for many Royal Canadian Air Force members and their families who died while serving in Europe as part of 1 Air Division between 1953 and 1967 and other Service Members serving with NATO in Germany following Canada's departure from France.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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