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Military service
Service number:
2700664
Age:
27
Rank:
Guardsman
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Scots Guards
Division:
2nd Battalion
Death:
April 16, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
4. B. 4.
Additional information
Son of Joseph and Angela Roche, of Branch, Placentia East, Newfoundland, Canada.
Digital gallery of Guardsman Joseph Francis Roche
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Gravemarker
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Dely Ibrahim War Cemetery
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Canadian Embassy delegation
On November 11th, 2002 a Canadian Embassy delegation attended the Remembrance Day ceremony at the Dely Ibrahim Cemetery in Algiers, Algeria. Officials of Commonwealth country embassies with representation in Algiers, as well as the American Embassy, laid wreaths at the cenotaph at the cemetery. The ceremony was organised by the British Embassy. At the end of the ceremony, the German Ambassador invited all participants to join him in a short solemn ceremony and wreath laying at the German cenotaph, adjacent to the Commonwealth cemetery.
Digital gallery of
Guardsman Joseph Francis Roche
Digital gallery of
Guardsman Joseph Francis Roche
Digital gallery of
Guardsman Joseph Francis Roche
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 192 of the Newfoundland Book of Remembrance.
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