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Military service
Service number:
L/67366
Age:
21
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada
Death:
July 21, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XV. B. 12.
Additional information
Son of Frank Francis Roper and Mary Roper, of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. His brother, Trooper Albert George Roper, who served with the Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians), R.C.A.C., also died during the Second World War on September 1, 1944.
Digital gallery of Private Ernest Alfred Roper
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Newspaper Clipping
From the Saskatoon Star-Phoenix. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Photo of Ernest Alfred Roper
Private Ernest Alfred Roper of the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada. Ernest also went by the nickname Binney. Ernest was a very sports minded person and was known for his athletic ability. Ernest had remained on the family farm in 1940 when his 3 older brothers joined up. Ernest signed up on Nov. 1, 1942 and served in France. He was survived by his parents, two older brothers and a sister. On August 5, 1954 the Government of Saskatchewn named the seven and a half mile long Roper Bay of Daly Lake in Honour of and memory of Ernest A. Roper. Daly Lake is in the Foster Lake area of northern Saskatchewan, 220 miles north of Prince Albert. -
Grave Marker
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Photo 2 of Grave Marker
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Bretteville-Sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery
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Grave Marker
Remembering Ernest Sept 12, 2012. -
Cemetery
Bretteville-Sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery Sept 12, 2012. -
Memorial
Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
Digital gallery of
Private Ernest Alfred Roper
Digital gallery of
Private Ernest Alfred Roper
Digital gallery of
Private Ernest Alfred Roper
Digital gallery of
Private Ernest Alfred Roper
Digital gallery of
Private Ernest Alfred Roper
Digital gallery of
Private Ernest Alfred Roper
Digital gallery of
Private Ernest Alfred Roper
Digital gallery of
Private Ernest Alfred Roper
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 432 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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