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Military service
Service number:
L/102238
Age:
23
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
1st Canadian Parachute Battalion, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
October 26, 1921
Ketchen, Saskatchewan
Enlistment:
September 2, 1942
Regina, Saskatchewan
Death:
March 24, 1945
Germany
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XXII. C. 11.
Additional information
Son of George Anton and Alma Charlotte Lindstrom. Husband of Violet Ethel Lilian (Elsmere) Lindstrom, of Preeceville, Saskatchewan.
Brother of Willard, Melford, Richard, Florence, Marian, Derdella and Clarice.
Father of Alvin Lindstrom.
Additional citations
1939-1945 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence Medal; War Medal (1939-45); Canadian Volunteer Service Medal
Digital gallery of Private Alvin Gordon Lindstrom
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Headstone of Alvin G. Lindstrom
The grave of Private Lindstrom, AG, 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion. Note the sealed, wartime photo of he and presumably his wife beside the grave. It makes for a very real, very touching setting. -
Photo of Alvin Lindstrom
In loving memory, all your sisters and brothers
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Private Alvin Gordon Lindstrom
Digital gallery of
Private Alvin Gordon Lindstrom
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 535 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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