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Squadron Leader JAMES ARCHIBALD FINDLAY MacLACHLAN

Service Number: 39639
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force

Air Fighting Development Unit

Date of Death

Died 31 July 1943

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

PONT L'EVEQUE (ROUTE DE CAEN) COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Grave 4.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Distinguished Service Order, Distinguished Flying Cross and 2 Bars
  • Additional Info Son of Hugh Findlay MacLachlan, and of Helen Mac Lachlan (nee Orr-Ewing), of East Grinstead, Sussex. His brother Gordon Baird MacLachlan also fell.
  • Personal Inscription IN PROUD AND LOVING MEMORY OF OUR DEAR JAY. "DEATH IS SWALLOWED UP IN VICTORY"
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