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Military service
Service number:
J/86453
Age:
23
Rank:
Pilot Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
431 Sqdn.
Birth:
May 7, 1921
Liebenthal, Saskatchewan
Enlistment:
April 30, 1942
Regina, Saskatchewan
Death:
May 13, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
X. 19. 4.
Additional information
Son of Lambert and Anna Laturnus of Wilkie, Saskatchewan.
Brother of Private Edward Laturnus, who died while serving with the South Saskatchewan Regiment.
Digital gallery of Pilot Officer Andrew Laturnus
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Photo of ANDREW LATURNUS
From the Saskatoon Star-Phoenix. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Photo of Andrew Laturnus
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Photo of Andrew Laturnus
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Attestation paper
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Document
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Correspondence
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Identification
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Memorial
Pilot Officer Andrew Laturnus is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Pilot Officer Andrew Laturnus is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper Clipping
From the Saskatoon Star-Phoenix. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Memorial
Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
Grave Marker
Andrew and has brother Edward died ~6 months apart and are buried ~ 40 km apart; Edward in Antwerp and Andrew in Brussels. In both instances the Commonwealth War Commission does a great job of honouring Canadian war dead buried on foreign soil and meticulously maintaining the grave sites. I do not know the Laturnus family, have only come to know their name and their story as a consequence of the geo-memorial program in Saskatchewan. Laturnus Island Ames after Edward.
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Andrew Laturnus
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Andrew Laturnus
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Andrew Laturnus
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Andrew Laturnus
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Andrew Laturnus
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Andrew Laturnus
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Andrew Laturnus
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Andrew Laturnus
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Andrew Laturnus
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 360 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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