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Military service
Service number:
106859
Age:
28
Rank:
Flying Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Division:
46 Sqdn.
Death:
December 19, 1942
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Column 248.
Additional information
Son of Percy and Beatrice Roe, of Montreal, Province of Quebec, Canada.
Digital gallery of Flying Officer John Robert Walsh Roe
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Alamein Memorial
The ALAMEIN MEMORIAL forms the entrance to Alamein War Cemetery. The Land Forces panels commemorate more than 8,500 soldiers of the Commonwealth who died in the campaigns in Egypt and Libya, and in the operations of the Eighth Army in Tunisia up to 19 February 1943, who have no known grave. It also commemorates those who served and died in Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Persia. The Air Forces panels commemorate more than 3,000 airmen of the Commonwealth who died in the campaigns in Egypt, Libya, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Greece, Crete and the Aegean, Ethiopia, Eritrea and the Somalilands, the Sudan, East Africa, Aden and Madagascar, who have no known grave. Those who served with the Rhodesian and South African Air Training Scheme and have no known grave are also commemorated here. Photo: Commonwealth War Graves Commission -
Newspaper clipping
From the Montreal Gazette. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer John Robert Walsh Roe
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer John Robert Walsh Roe
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 111 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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