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
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- 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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