Military service
Service number:
159693
Age:
21
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
4th Canadian Mounted Rifles (2nd Central Ontario Regt.)
Birth:
January 7, 1895
Birmingham, Warwickshire, England
Enlistment:
January 31, 1916
St. Catharines, Ontario
Death:
October 1, 1916
France
Burial/memorial information
Digital gallery of Private Roland Thomas Aston
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Photo of Roland Thomas Aston
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
British Home Children Roll of Honour
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Inscription
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens)
Digital gallery of
Private Roland Thomas Aston
Digital gallery of
Private Roland Thomas Aston
Digital gallery of
Private Roland Thomas Aston
Digital gallery of
Private Roland Thomas Aston
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 48 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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