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Military service
Service number:
742642
Age:
21
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (New Brunswick Regiment)
Division:
26th Bn.
Birth:
July 19, 1896
Death:
August 15, 1917
Burial/memorial information
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Son of Theodore and Annie Stairs, of Lower Southampton, York Co., New Brunswick.
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Private Roy Sharp Stairs<br> Enlisted January 26, 1916 in the 115th Battalion. Sailed from Halifax, Nova Scotia on July 23,1916 aboard the S.S. Olympic, arrived in England on July 31, 1916. Transferred to the 112th Battalion then posted to the 26th Battalion where he was shipped to France on April 20, 1917. Joined his fighting unit on May 5, 1917. Killed in action on Wednesday, August 15, 1917 on Hill 70 during the Battles of Vimy Ridge. Buried in France - Recorded on the Vimy War Memorial Marker with his parents at Otis Cemetery, Lr. Southampton, New Brunswick. -
Memorial
Memorial tree dedicated to the memory of Private Roy Stairs, planted at Almonte's (ON) Veterans' Memorial Walkway. -
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Memorial
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Newspaper clipping
From the Saint John (New Brunswick) Daily Telegraph newspaper c.1917. Submitted for he project Operation Picture Me -
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From the Saint John (New Brunswick) Daily Telegraph newspaper c.1917. Submitted for he project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Roy Sharp Stairs
Digital gallery of
Private Roy Sharp Stairs
Digital gallery of
Private Roy Sharp Stairs
Digital gallery of
Private Roy Sharp Stairs
Digital gallery of
Private Roy Sharp Stairs
Digital gallery of
Private Roy Sharp Stairs
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 331 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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