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Military service
Service number:
G/2595
Age:
18
Rank:
Rifleman
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Winnipeg Rifles
Death:
September 28, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
7. A. 11.
Additional information
Son of Gladys Savoy, of Burnt Church, New Brunswick.
Digital gallery of Rifleman Roy Savoy
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Grave Marker
photo courtesy of Mark Banning, England. Roy Savoy enlisted in Dec. 43; was sent to France 6 Sept. 44, then assigned to the Winnipeg Rifles, and was killed on the 28th at age 18. He was born in Burnt Church, N. B.( the lands at Burnt Church have long been occupied by First Nations peoples). He had been working as a woodsman for 2 wks when he enlisted and had been a fisherman and a trapper. -
Inscription
A very touching inscription chosen by a mother for her 18 yr old son. -
Photo of ROY SAVOY
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Saint John (New Brunswick) Telegraph Journal newspaper c.1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Roy Savoy
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Roy Savoy
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Roy Savoy
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Roy Savoy
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 437 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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