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Military service
Service number:
H/137
Age:
26
Rank:
Sergeant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians), R.C.A.C.
Division:
2nd Armoured Regiment
Birth:
July 1, 1918
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Enlistment:
Winnipeg, Nova Scotia
Death:
September 1, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
III. F. 6.
Additional information
Son of John Aleck and Ida (Aida) Whilhelmina (nee Larson) Lofvendahl, of Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Brother of Ada Alexandra, Agnes, Charles Alec, Irene, Gerves, Victor Raymond, Evelyn May, George Howard, Robert, Harvey Kenneth, Joyce, Richard and Leslie Bryan.
The Province of Saskatchewan honoured Sergeant Lofvendahl by naming a lake in his honour.
Digital gallery of Sergeant John Wilfred Lofvendahl
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Photo of John Wilfred Lofvendahl
Circa 1941 -
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
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Sergeant John Wilfred Lofvendahl
Digital gallery of
Sergeant John Wilfred Lofvendahl
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 367 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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