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Private Roland Hope Johnston

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Military service

Service number: 183800
Age: 26
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians), R.C.A.C.
Birth: September 10, 1891 Calgary, Alberta
Enlistment: December 3, 1915 Alberta
Death: August 13, 1918 France

Burial/memorial information

VILLERS-BRETONNEUX MILITARY CEMETERY
Grave reference: V. AA. 8.
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Son of George Hope Johnston of Calgary, Alberta.

Brother of Lt. G.E. Hope Johnston serving with the Fort Garry Horse, and J.L. Hope Johnston of Calgary, Alberta.

Prior to enlisting, he worked as an accountant with the Winnipeg Oil Company. He was educated at the Western Canada College.

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 437 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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VILLERS-BRETONNEUX MILITARY CEMETERY Somme, France

Villers-Bretonneux is a village 16 kilometres east of Amiens on the straight main road to St Quentin. The Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery is about 2 kilometres north of the village on the east side of the road to Fouilloy.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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