In memory of

Pilot Officer

Carman MacKenzie Colquhoun

who died on 22 Sep 1943

Service details
  Conflict WWII
  Service RCAF
  Unit No. 218 Squadron, Royal Air Force
  Rank Pilot Officer
  Service number J17934
  Date of death 19430922
  Cause of death killed in action
Narrative history
  J17934 Pilot Officer (No. 218 Gold Coast Squadron RAF pilot) Carman MacKenzie Colquhoun (b.1922) of Maple Creek was KIA 19430922 and is buried at Hanover war cemetery, Harrenburg, Germany. Colquhon's Stirling went missing in a raid on Hanover. He was the youngest son of Peter Chesnut and Idella Maud (Nash) Colquhoun who came from Dundas Co., Ontario, to homestead NW23-12-26-W3 north of Maple Creek. Carman attended Motherwell school and Maple Creek high and was clerking in a drugstore when he enlisted at Regina in 1941. His older brother James (Mac) also served with the RCAF and spent more than two years as a POW. The boys were the nephews of Alexander J. Colquhoun, Liberal MLA for Maple Creek 1917-21.
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Memorial information
  Saskatchewan rural municipality for commemoration 111 - Maple Creek
  Cemetery or memorial location Hannover war cemetery, Niedersachsen, Germany    

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  Geo-memorial Colquhoun Lake, Saskatchewan     
  Geo-memorial location 57.3667°N / 105.75°W
  Geo-memorial NTS map reference 74H5
  Geo-memorial details On behalf of the family Doug Chisholm erected a tribute plaque at Colquhoun Lake northwest of Highrock Lake in 2004.
Personal information
  Date of birth 19220310
  Place of birth Maple Creek    
  Date of enlistment 19410804
  Place of enlistment Regina    
  Residence on enlistment Maple Creek    
  Occupation store clerk
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