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Military service
Service number:
B/136088
Age:
22
Rank:
Trooper
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Three Rivers Regiment, R.C.A.C.
Division:
12th Armd. Regt.
Birth:
January 27, 1922
Penetanguishene, Ontario
Enlistment:
November 23, 1942
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
June 28, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
V, H, 12.
Additional information
Son of Senat and Delvia Desroches, of Toronto, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Trooper Ernest Raoul Desroches
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Newspaper Clipping
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Newspaper Clipping
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Grave Marker
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Inscription
Detail of the epitaph on the gravestone of Tpr E.R. Desroches in the Assisi War Cemetery, Near Assisi, Italy. -
Newspaper clipping
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Newspaper clipping
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Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Trooper Ernest Raoul Desroches
Digital gallery of
Trooper Ernest Raoul Desroches
Digital gallery of
Trooper Ernest Raoul Desroches
Digital gallery of
Trooper Ernest Raoul Desroches
Digital gallery of
Trooper Ernest Raoul Desroches
Digital gallery of
Trooper Ernest Raoul Desroches
Digital gallery of
Trooper Ernest Raoul Desroches
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 290 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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ASSISI WAR CEMETERY Italy
The Assisi War Cemetery forms part of the locality of Rivotorto in the Commune of Assisi, in the Province of Perugia. From Rome, take highway A1, Rome-Milano, come off at Orte and go along the road 75 for Perugia and follow the direction signs for Assisi. Take the road to Rivotorto, and at a crossroad from which a church is visible, turn left. The Assisi War Cemetery is reached after about 500 metres .
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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