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Enlisted in the 7th District Depot, he was first transferred to the Fusiliers Mont-Royal on March 23, 1943, sent to Great Britain, where he arrived on April 4, and then to the Royal 22nd Regiment on May 12. He embarked for Sicily as part of Operation Husky, landing on July 10, 1943. On September 3 of the same year, he landed in Reggio di Calabria on the Italian mainland. He was assigned to the 4th Battalion on the 28th. He was killed in action on March 24, 1944, in the village of San Nicola. He was buried on the 25th at the Casa Berardi cemetery in Lanciano, near Ortona. His remains were exhumed and reburied in the Moro River cemetery.
1939-1945 Star, Italy Star, 1939-1945 War Medal, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal with bar
Digital gallery of Private Francis Deroche
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Grave marker for F. Deroche
Digital gallery of
Private Francis Deroche
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 289 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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