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MARCUS, John Joseph
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- Collection
- Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records
- Material Type
- textual record
- graphic material
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Material Type
- textual record
- graphic material
- Date of Birth
- 1912
- Date of Death
- December 28, 1943
- Place of Burial
- Bath, Somerset, England
- Cemetery
- Bath (Haycombe) Cemetery
- Age at Time of Death
- 32
- Enlistment No.
- J-9287
- Rank
- Flight Lieutenant
- Unit
- Royal Canadian Air Force
- Notes
- Flight Lieutenant John Joseph Marcus, R.C.A.F., of Montreal, was officially reported killed on active service on December 28, 1943. He was buried in Haycombe Cemetery in Bath, England. Flight Lieutenant Marcus served from 1930 to 1937 aboard the H.M.C.S. Saguenay and the H.M.C.S. Champlain with the Royal Canadian Navy and from 1937 to 1940 with the Canadian merchant marine before enlisting in the air force at Montreal in 1940. He graduated from Mountain View, Ontario, in December 1941 and was awarded the Silver Wing for heading his gunnery class. He went overseas the following month and was attached to the R.A.F. On October 1, 1942, he was promoted to flying officer.
- Subjects
- World War II
- Record Source
- Canadian Jewish Military Casualties
- Fonds No.
- CJC0001
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
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