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Roger Horace Lelièvre

In memory of:

Lieutenant Roger Horace Lelièvre

August 31, 1918
Hounslow Aerodome, London, United Kingdom

Military Service


Age:

22

Force:

Air Force

Unit:

Royal Air Force

Division:

1 Training Depot Station

Additional Information


Born:

April 25, 1896
Ottawa, Ontario

Enlistment:

November 28, 1914
St-Jean, Quebec

Only son of Siméon Lelièvre (assistant Clerk of the Senate) and Alice Bauset, of Ottawa, Ontario. He enrolled as a private with the 22nd Battalion in 1914 and served at the front from September 1915 to April 1916. He was then repatriated and was made Officer in a new Battalion. He went back to England, four months later. In early 1917, he changed vocation and joined the Royal Flying Corps as an air observer. He served in France and Egypt. Then, in the summer of 1918, he started to train as a pilot with the Royal Air Force in England. He died shortly after in a training flight.

Commemorated on Page 448 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:

HESTON (ST. LEONARD) CEMETERY
Middlesex, United Kingdom

Grave Reference:

C. 23.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Digital Collection

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  • Honour roll– In memory of the Ashbury College alumni and staff who gave their lives in Word War I, World War II and the Korean War. Plaque erected in the Ashbury College Chapel, 362 Mariposa Avenue, Ottawa
  • Biography– Biography, Ashburian, Ashbury College Yearbook
  • Newspaper clipping– From the Montreal Star c.1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Photo of Roger Horace Lelievre– Ashbury College 1913
  • Photo of Roger Horace Lelievre– Ashbury College 1912
  • Newspaper Clipping
  • Grave marker
  • Memorial

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