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Citation(s);
Military service
Service number:
J/16688
Age:
23
Rank:
Flight Lieutenant Navigator
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
617 (R.A.F.) Dambuster Squadron
Birth:
May 22, 1920
Milo, Alberta
Enlistment:
July 19, 1940
Calgary, Alberta
Death:
September 16, 1943
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Coll. grave 16. B. 13-16.
Additional information
Son of Guttorm Tonger and Hilda Ingeline Olson Taerum, of Calgary, Alberta.
Brother of Lorne Clifford Taerum who died on February 3, 1945 while serving with the Royal Canadian Air Force.
Digital gallery of Flight Lieutenant Navigator Torger Harlo Taerum
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Squadron Badge
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Entrance
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Cemetery
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Grave marker
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Photo of Torger Taerum
Photo courtesy of the Nanton Lancaster Society Air Museum. Photo submitted for the project Operation Picture Me. -
Medals
Photo courtesy of the Nanton Lancaster Society Air Museum. Photo submitted for the project Operation Picture Me. -
Photo of Torger Taerum
Photo courtesy of the Nanton Lancaster Society Air Museum. Photo submitted for the project Operation Picture Me. -
Group photo
Guy Gibson VC in Centre, Terry at Right<P> Photo courtesy of the Nanton Lancaster Society Air Museum<P> Photo submitted for the project Operation Picture Me. -
Newspaper Clipping
From the Calgary Herald. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Grave marker
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Attestation paper
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Attestation paper
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Letter
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Document
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 Lieutenant Navigator Torger Harlo Taerum is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flight Lieutenant Navigator Torger Harlo Taerum is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
Newspaper clipping
From the Montreal Star. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From a World War 2 issue of the St Catharines Standard c.1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Navigator Torger Harlo Taerum
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Navigator Torger Harlo Taerum
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 218 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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