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Lieutenant Roger Horace Lelièvre

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Military service

Age: 22
Rank: Lieutenant
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: royal air force
Division: 1 Training Depot Station
Birth: April 25, 1896 Ottawa, Ontario
Enlistment: November 28, 1914
Death: August 31, 1918 Hounslow Aerodome, London, United Kingdom

Burial/memorial information

HESTON (ST. LEONARD) CEMETERY
Grave reference: C. 23.
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Only son of Siméon Lelièvre (assistant Clerk of the Senate) and Alice Bauset, of Ottawa, Ontario. He enrolled as a private with the 22nd Battalion in 1914 and served at the front from September 1915 to April 1916. He was then repatriated and was made Officer in a new Battalion. He went back to England, four months later. In early 1917, he changed vocation and joined the Royal Flying Corps as an air observer. He served in France and Egypt. Then, in the summer of 1918, he started to train as a pilot with the Royal Air Force in England. He died shortly after in a training flight.

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

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Page 448 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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HESTON (ST. LEONARD) CEMETERY Middlesex, United Kingdom

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