Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Newspaper Clipping – Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

Memorial – Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens

Memorial – Flight Sergeant Hiam Murray Magder is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens

Memorial – Flight Sergeant Hiam Murray Magder is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens

Photo of HIAM MURRAY MAGDER – Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

Other – Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

Other – Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

Other – Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Star February 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Star March 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Star August 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Photo of Hiam Magder – Hiam Magder is honoured on page 48 of the memorial book, CANADIAN JEWS IN WORLD WAR II, Part II: Casualties, compiled by David Rome for the Canadian Jewish Congress, Montreal, 1948. This extract is provided courtesy of the Canadian Jewish Congress which holds the copyright for this volume. For additional information about these archival records, please contact: The Canadian Jewish Congress National Archives 1590 Ave. Docteur Penfield, Montreal, Que. H3G 1C5 (Canada) telephone: 514-931-7531 ex. 2 facsimile: 514-931-0548 website: www.cjc.ca

Photo of Hiam Murray Magder – Submitted in memory of the Harbord Collegiate Institute students who served during World War I and World War II and did not retrun home. Submitted for the project Operation: Picture Me

Plaque – Submitted in memory of the Harbord Collegiate Institute students who served during World War I and World War II and did not retrun home. Submitted for the project Operation: Picture Me

Memorial – Submitted in memory of the Harbord Collegiate Institute students who served during World War I and World War II and did not retrun home. Submitted for the project Operation: Picture Me

Memorial – Submitted in memory of the Harbord Collegiate Institute students who served during World War I and World War II and did not retrun home. Submitted for the project Operation: Picture Me

Grave Marker – Photo courtesy of Frans van Cappellen, The Netherlands FS Magder was Observer on Lancaster ED 440 which had taken part in the following key Operations: Berlin 16/17Dec43; Dusseldorf 27/28Jan43; Hamburg 30/31Jan43; Cologne 2/3Feb43-Lost. The crew was airborne 1851 2Feb43 from Fiskerton. Shot down by a night-fighter, crashing 2113 2Feb43 between Kessel and Helden (Limburg), where those killed were initially buried. They have since been re-interred in the Jonkerbos War cemetery. Also killed was F/O (WAG) E.J.F. Dunand of Saskatchewan. Four RAF crew members were killed and one survived and was taken PoW. (Source: www.lostbombers.co.uk)