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Remembering World War II
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George Alan MacLachlan
George Alan MacLachlan
Lieutenant
O-44950
Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve
HMCS Valleyfield
January 31, 1922
Toronto, Ontario
May 13, 1941
Halifax
May 7, 1944
22
Halifax Memorial
Commemorated on page 374 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance
Displayed in the Memorial Chamber of the Peace Tower in Ottawa on August 8
George Alan MacLachlan was the son of of Commander Kellog
Sinclair MacLachlan and Jessie G. MacLachlan, of Montreal, Quebec
and the husband of Olga Irene MacLachlan, of Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Lieutenant MacLachlan died when his ship, HMCS Valleyfield was
torpedoed and sunk on May 7, 1944, by U-548