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Military service
Service number:
CDN/659
Age:
24
Rank:
Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's)
Division:
7th
Birth:
August 2, 1920
North Battleford, Saskatchewan
Enlistment:
November 1, 1941
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Death:
January 14, 1945
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XV. B. 5.
Additional information
Son of Arthur and Deela Thoreson of Ottawa, Ontario. Husband of Hilda Thoreson of Truro, Nova Scotia.
Raymond Thoresen was a member of the Royal Canadian Infantry Corps, he died while serving with the Seaforth Highlanders as a CANLOAN Officer.
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Newspaper clipping
From the Winnipeg Free Press 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Lieutenant Raymond Frederick Thoresen
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 570 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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