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Constable Roy Eldon Laird

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Royal Canadian Mounted Police

Service number: 14694
Age: 34
Rank: Constable
Force: RCMP
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Enlistment: April 16, 1946
Death: August 26, 1955 Medicine Hat, Alberta
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Cst. Laird was with the Saskatchewan Light Infantry in WWII. For his war service he was awarded the 1939-1945 Star, the France and Germany Star, the Italy Star, the Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and clasp, and the 1939-1945 War Medal. After the war he engaged with the RCMP. He served in Hamilton, ON, and several posts in Alberta. He died while on duty in a non-collision traffic accident on the Ranchville Road, near Medicine Hat, Alberta. Cst. Laird had a wife Ann and a son. He is buried in the Cemetery at Depot.

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Page 110 of the RCMP Book of Remembrance.
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