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Wing Commander WILLIAM MCFARLANE RUSSELL

Service Number: 70594
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force

138 Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 08 May 1944

Age 35 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LE MANS WEST CEMETERY

Plot 38. 1939-45 Row C. Grave 7-11 (Coll.)

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Distinguished Flying Cross and Bar
  • Additional Info Son of John and Jean Russell; husband of Mary Brockhurst Russell, of Royal Oak, British Columbia, Canada. M.A. (Cantab.).
  • Personal Inscription FOR THEY HAVE PAID ALL THAT MAN CAN OWE AND THEREFORE ARE SET FREE
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