Mrs. Alice Rochon of Ottawa, Ontario, was the 1951 National Memorial (Silver) Cross Mother. During the national Remembrance Day ceremony in Ottawa on November 11, 1951, she laid a wreath at the base of the National War Memorial on behalf of all mothers who have lost a child in military service to Canada.
On April 25, 1945, her son, Major Robert Lionel Rochon, was killed while serving with Le Regiment de la Chaudière, RCIC.
Mrs. Rochon was the mother of nine children, four served in the Second World War. The youngest was a sergeant with the Royal 22nd Regiment in the Korean War.