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Military service
Service number:
R/87497
Age:
20
Rank:
Sergeant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
158 (R.A.F.) Sqdn
Birth:
August 10, 1922
Edam, Saskatchewan
Enlistment:
March 7, 1941
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Death:
January 9, 1943
Bryndum, Denmark
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Alll. 8. 16.
Additional information
Son of August and Isabelle of Flin Flon, Manitoba. Brother of Corporal Harold Lavigne, Lincoln and Welland Regiment, killed in action 20 February 1945.
Digital gallery of Sergeant Joseph Edward Robert Lavigne
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Sergeant Joseph Edward Robert Lavigne is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Sergeant Joseph Edward Robert Lavigne is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
Newspaper clipping
From the Regina Leader Post February 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Regina Leader Post February 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Joseph Edward Robert Lavigne
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Joseph Edward Robert Lavigne
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Joseph Edward Robert Lavigne
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Joseph Edward Robert Lavigne
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Joseph Edward Robert Lavigne
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Joseph Edward Robert Lavigne
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 180 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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ESBJERG (FOURFELT) CEMETERY Denmark
Esbjerg is a port in south-western Jutland. ESBJERG (FOURFELT) CEMETERY is about 3 kilometres to the north of the town, off the road to Hjerting, along the Gravlundvej.
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