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Military service
Service number:
B/79897
Age:
20
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
April 30, 1924
Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
Enlistment:
April 20, 1943
Sudbury, Ontario
Death:
March 3, 1945
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XXI. E. 14.
Additional information
Son of Charles F. and Eva M. Roffey, of Sudbury, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private John Frederick Roffey
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Artifact
There was a small Canadian camp next to our house in Nijmegen. The camp was situated at Driehuizerweg ( Brakkenstein ). I remember that my parents regularly had contact with John Roffey. I myself remember him vaguely. John was killed during Operation Veritable. His body was buried at Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery. We still have his items that memorize John’s First Holy Communion. He left these items with us before leaving for the battlefield, from which he never returned. -
Artifact
There was a small Canadian camp next to our house in Nijmegen. The camp was situated at Driehuizerweg ( Brakkenstein ). I remember that my parents regularly had contact with John Roffey. I myself remember him vaguely. John was killed during Operation Veritable. His body was buried at Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery. We still have his items that memorize John’s First Holy Communion. He left these items with us before leaving for the battlefield, from which he never returned. -
Photo of JOHN FREDERICK ROFFEY
John Roffey Date unknown, likely taken on the hill behind the home of his parents. -
Newspaper clipping
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Private John Frederick Roffey
Digital gallery of
Private John Frederick Roffey
Digital gallery of
Private John Frederick Roffey
Digital gallery of
Private John Frederick Roffey
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 559 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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