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Military service
Service number:
N36150141
Age:
32
Rank:
Leading Seaman
Force:
Navy
Unit/Regiment:
50 Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron, RCN
Birth:
December 6, 1938
Ottawa, Ontario
Enlistment:
February 13, 1959
Ottawa, Ontario
Death:
November 7, 1971
330 nautical miles from Halifax, Nova Scotia
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Buried at Sea
Additional information
Son of Jean McCrea of Arnprior, Ontario. Husband of Marjorie Marie (nee Clark) McCrea and father of Joanne, Michael, Clay McCrea of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.
Digital gallery of Leading Seaman John Osborne Ross McCrea
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Newspaper clipping
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Newspaper clipping
Digital gallery of
Leading Seaman John Osborne Ross McCrea
Digital gallery of
Leading Seaman John Osborne Ross McCrea
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 152 of the In the Service of Canada, Vol. I (1947 – 2014) Book of Remembrance.
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