Military service
Burial/memorial information
Son of Anton Christian Agerbak (alias Anderson) and Kamilla Catherine Moeller (alias Cammilla). Husband of Rose Alma Dupas, of Pilot Mound, Manitoba. Father of Albert A. and Blanche E. Agerbak. Brother of Knub Agerbak, service number H-6325, and Borge Buster Agerbak, service number H-6326, both also from the Winnipeg Grenadiers, and prisoner or war in Hong Kong and Japan.
Tage Gynther served in Manitoba, in Bermuda with Force B, in Jamaica with Force Y, in Hong Kong with Force C. He had 831 days of service, including 55 overseas.
1939-1945 Star, Pacific Star, War Medal 1939-1945, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp.
Digital gallery of Corporal Tage Gynther Agerbak
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Photo of Tage Gynther Agerbak
Agerbak, Tage, H 6293 -
Biography
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
Corporal TAGE GYNTHER AGERBAK was reported to be Missing in Action in the Canadian Army's 243rd overseas casualty list of the war published in the Globe and Mail on January 8, 1943. -
Newspaper Clipping
In memory of the men and women memorialized on the pages of the Winnipeg Evening Tribune. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Photo of TAGE GYNTHER AGERBAK
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Map
Manitoba Memorial Geo-Naming project - Cpl AGERBAK T.G. 1972 Agerbak Lake Nueltin Lake, Manitoba, southwest of 59 14' 35"; 101 27' 04" (sib of Borge, Hong Kong veteran) -
Honour Roll
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Canada and the Defence of Hong Kong
Source: Veterans Affairs Canada. -
Canadian Casuatlies in the Defence of Hong Kong
Source: Veterans Affairs Canada. -
Memorial
Corporal TAGE GYNTHER AGERBAK is one of 19 members of the Winnipeg Grenadiers, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps who are commemorated on this panel of the Sai Wan Memorial. He was one of 290 Canadian soldiers killed during the defense of Hong Kong, from December 8th to December 25th, 1941. According to information compiled by Vincent Lopata and posted at the Hong Kong Veteran¿s Commorative Association website, Corporal Agerbak, who had been wounded, was murdered by the Japanese at ¿the Black Hole¿, along with Lieutenant ERIC LAWSON MITCHELL and his brother Lieutenant WILLIAM VAUGHAN MITCHELL and Private DORI JAMES O'NEILL. http://www.cforce.hkvca.ca/battledeaths.htm -
Dedicatory Inscription of the Sai Wan Memorial
Dedicatory inscription of the SAI WAN MEMORIAL. This memorial bears the names of more than 2,000 Commonwealth servicemen, including 228 Canadians. -
Unknown Marker
The Sai Wan Memorial is located at the entrance of Sai Wan Cemetery. 1,505 Commonwealth casualties of the Second World War are buried or commemorated at this cemetery, of which 444 of the burials are the remains of unidentified soldiers, including those of 107 Canadian soldiers, most of whom were killed or died of wounds during the defense of Hong Kong, which took place from December 8th to December 25th, 1941. This is one such grave marker. There is a possibility that the remains of Corporal TAGE GYNTHER AGERBAK lie beneath this grave marker, or one of the other 106 grave markers in Sai Wan Cemetery that simply read, A SOLDIER OF THE 1939-1945 WAR. A CANADIAN REGIMENT. KNOWN UNTO GOD. The unidentified soldiers are commemorated at the Sai Wan Memorial.
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Corporal Tage Gynther Agerbak
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Corporal Tage Gynther Agerbak
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Corporal Tage Gynther Agerbak
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Corporal Tage Gynther Agerbak
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Corporal Tage Gynther Agerbak
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Corporal Tage Gynther Agerbak
Digital gallery of
Corporal Tage Gynther Agerbak
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Corporal Tage Gynther Agerbak
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 22 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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