Military service
Service number:
216393
Age:
21
Rank:
Flying Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
No. 3 All-Weather (Fighter) Operational Training Unit
Birth:
April 21, 1934
St. Claire, Québec
Enlistment:
September 9, 1953
Montreal, Québec
Death:
September 8, 1955
Cold Lake, Alberta
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Grave 4109, Plot 3412, Section M
Additional information
Son of Armand and Lucienne (nee Fournier) Desrochers of Montreal, Quebec.
Digital gallery of Flying Officer Joseph Raoul Real Gilles Desrochers
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Photo of Joseph Raoul Real Gilles Desrochers
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Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Joseph Raoul Real Gilles Desrochers
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Joseph Raoul Real Gilles Desrochers
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 68 of the In the Service of Canada, Vol. I (1947 – 2014) Book of Remembrance.
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