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Military service
Service number:
889408
Age:
18
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division:
22nd Bn.
Birth:
January 15, 1899
Cap des Rosiers, Gaspésie, Québec
Enlistment:
May 3, 1916
Gaspé, Québec
Death:
April 13, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
V. F. 17.
Additional information
Orphaned son of Jérome Riffou and Emma Ouellet.
He was adopted by Mathieu Riffou and Émilie Smith (uncle and aunt).
He was baptized Joseph-John-Ovila, and successively went by the first names of Ovila, Odila and Rosila.
Digital gallery of Private Rosila Riffou
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Grave marker
Pierre tombale
Digital gallery of
Private Rosila Riffou
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 316 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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