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Military service
Service number:
H/6278
Age:
34
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Winnipeg Grenadiers, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
June 19, 1913
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Enlistment:
September 12, 1939
Manitoba
Death:
December 31, 1947
Vancouver, British Columbia
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Block 7. Plot 14. Lot 5.
Additional information
Son of John E. and Dorothy Ross of Winnipeg, Manitoba Husband of Kathleen (nee Rydo) Gooch, of Essondale, British Columbia. Discharged after 58 days on 8 November 1939 using the alias Ross, Arthur Henry. He re-enlisted and was discharged at Winnipeg, Manitoba on 5 April 1946. Private Gooch was a Hong Kong Prisoner of War.
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Commemorated on:
Page 617 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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