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Military service
Service number:
292031
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Saskatchewan Regiment)
Division:
5th Bn.
Death:
August 15, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
There is a gravestone in the Roman Catholic Cemetery at Merrickville, Ontario which bears the inscription 'Pte E.D. Roche buried in France in 1917'. Information courtesy of Merrickville Remembers Project, May 2002.
Digital gallery of Private Edward Donnick Roche
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Memorial Page
Edward Donnick Roche is honoured on page 22 of the <i>Merrickville Remembers</i> booklet, published in January 2003. -
Merrickville Remembers
This project was sponsored jointly by the Canadian Legion Branch 245 and the Merrickville District Community Health Centre. Serving on the Committee were Jack Jessop, Past President of Legion Branch 245; Joyce McKay, who lost a brother in the Second World War; Peter McKenna, Executive Director of Merrickville and District Community Health Centre; and Jack Wilcox, who upon discharge from the Canadian Army in 1945, prepared the Sydney Academy Memorial Booklet honouring the students of the Academy who gave their lives in the Second World War. -
Memorial
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens)
Digital gallery of
Private Edward Donnick Roche
Digital gallery of
Private Edward Donnick Roche
Digital gallery of
Private Edward Donnick Roche
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 318 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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