In memory of

Pilot Officer

Thomas Horace Lunnin

who died on 19 Jul 1944

Service details
  Conflict WWII
  Service RCAF
  Unit No. 50 Squadron, Royal Air Force
  Rank Pilot Officer
  Service number J90304
  Date of death 19440719
  Cause of death killed in action
Narrative history
  J90304 Pilot Officer (No. 50 Squadron RAF air gunner) Thomas Horace (Tom) Lunnin (b.1925) of Creelman was KIA 19440719 and is buried at Robert-Magny churchyard northwest of Chaumont, Haute-Marne, France. Lunnin's Lancaster crashed near Montdidier during a night raid on Revigny. His father George Herbert Langford Lunnin came from Tracy, Sunbury Co., New Brunswick, to homestead NW30-11-9-W2 in the Crieff district in 1905, his mother Madeleine Irene Clare (Macmillan) was born in India. Herb later worked as a Watkins representative. Tom was born and educated at Creelman and went straight from school to the RCAF at Regina late in 1942. His brothers Bob and Eric served in the Army and Navy respectively.
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Memorial information
  Saskatchewan rural municipality for commemoration 96 - Fillmore
  Cemetery or memorial location Robert-Magny churchyard northwest of Chaumont, Haute-Marne, France    

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  Honour roll location(s) Creelman
  Geo-memorial Lunnin Lake, Saskatchewan     
  Geo-memorial location 56.6833°N / 106.3333°W
  Geo-memorial NTS map reference 74B9
  Geo-memorial details South of Haultain Lake.
Personal information
  Date of birth 19250325
  Place of birth Creelman    
  Date of enlistment 19421214
  Place of enlistment Regina    
  Residence on enlistment Creelman    
  Occupation student
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