1942
James McLean Johnson
1918-1942
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"Manitoulin Mac" they call him
around Gore Bay, but its's "Jumping James" to 39 since one P.M., in the
Hotel London soon after exams were over - remember? A graduate of Gore
Bay (Manitoulin Island) High School, Mac indulged himself in his
civilian days in hockey, hunting, fishing, and being a teller in the
Collingwood Branch of the Bank of Montreal, but decided to come down
from the tall timbers last July 17th and enlisted in the R.C.A.F., at
the Bay Street recruiting depot in Toronto. Mac listed under
idiosyncracies that he is a "Canadian Indian off the reserve".....and
who should know better than Mac???? |
 Sergeant James McLean Johnson died on September 13, 1942 while flying with 31 Operational Training Unit out of Debert, Nova Scotia. His name is inscribed on a tablet at the Commonwealth Air Forces Memorial in Ottawa at the mouth of the Rideau River, just next to the Rideau Falls. This memorial commemorates the Commonwealth Air Force personnel who died in North America during the Second World War and who have no known grave. |
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