In memory of

Pilot Officer

Sigmund Bernard Bandur

who died on 22 May 1944

Service details
  Conflict WWII
  Service RCAF
  Unit No. 619 Squadron, Royal Air Force
  Rank Pilot Officer
  Service number J88413
  Date of death 19440522
  Cause of death killed in action
Narrative history
  J88413 Pilot Officer (No. 619 Squadron RAF navigator) Sigmund Bernard Bandur (b.1915) of Calgary, Alberta, was KIA 19440522 and is buried at Brookwood military cemetery in Surrey near London, England. Bandur's Lancaster was shot down by an enemy fighter and crashed at Wretham, Kent. He was the son of Polish pioneers Barney and Angelia Jarva (Dzeirwa) Bandur who came to the Bonnie Brae district southeast of Outlook via the United States. Sigmund was born at Broderick, moved to Calgary in 1939 to work as a carpenter for Cominco and enlisted three years later at Edmonton.
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Memorial information
  Saskatchewan rural municipality for commemoration 284 - Rudy
  Cemetery or memorial location Brookwood military cemetery, Woking, Surrey, England    

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  Honour roll location(s) Outlook
  Geo-memorial Bandur Lake, Saskatchewan     
  Geo-memorial location 55.7167°N / 104.65°W
  Geo-memorial NTS map reference 73P10
  Geo-memorial details North of Grandmothers Bay.
Personal information
  Date of birth 19150906
  Place of birth Broderick    
  Date of enlistment 19420610
  Place of enlistment Edmonton, Alberta    
  Residence on enlistment Calgary, Alberta    
  Occupation carpenter
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