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Military service
Service number:
G/19213
Age:
27
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Carleton and York Regiment, R.C.I.C.
Death:
December 31, 1943
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
VI. B. 9.
Additional information
Son of Melvin Wilfred and Nellie Jane Porter, of Saint John, New Brunswick. Brother of Lance Bombadier George Walter Porter, Royal Canadian Artillery, killed in action 8 December 1944.
Mrs. Porter was a member of the Remembrance Association, Silver Cross Women of Canada, Wheat City Chapter, Brandon, Manitoba.
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Cemetery
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Cemetery
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Grave marker
Photo: Kent Caldwell -
Memorial
Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
Newspaper clipping
From the Saint John (New Brunswick) Times Globe newspaper c.1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Private Roy Winfield Porter
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Private Roy Winfield Porter
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Private Roy Winfield Porter
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Private Roy Winfield Porter
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Private Roy Winfield Porter
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Private Roy Winfield Porter
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 204 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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