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Pilot Officer JOSEPH SIMON TORGALSON

Service Number: 42732
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force

149 Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 12 July 1940

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY

Coll. grave 14. E. 6-11.

Germany

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Emil and Johanna Torgalson, of New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada.
  • Personal Inscription NOT JUST TODAY BUT EVERY DAY IN SILENCE WE REMEMBER
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Buried or commemorated at

REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY
Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany
Number of casualties: 7671
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