Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Edmund Daniel Roach
In memory of:
Flight Sub Lieutenant Edmund Daniel Roach
May 1, 1917
Military Service
25
Navy
Royal Naval Air Service
Additional Information
Son of Patrick and Ann Roach, of Toronto, Ontario.
Commemorated on Page 580 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.
Burial Information
CABARET-ROUGE BRITISH CEMETERY
Pas de Calais, France
VIII. J. 25.
Souchez is a village in the Department of the Pas-De-Calais, 3.5 kilometres north of Arras on the main road to Bethune. It lies in the valley of the Souchez river, between the Lorette Bridge to the west and Vimy Ridge to the east. The CABARET-ROUGE BRITISH CEMETERY is about 1.5 kilometres south of the village on the west side of the D937 Arras-Bethune Road.
Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Digital Collection
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Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Telegram May 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Telegram May 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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Memorial tablet – Edmund Daniel Roach's name appears on this Memorial Tablet. St. Paul's was founded in 1822 as the first Roman Catholic parish in York (now Toronto). The present church was designed by Joseph Connelly in 1889 and was renamed St. Paul's Basilica in 1999. The WWI Memorial plaque is located outside the front entrance of the church. The Basilica is located in downtown Toronto on the corner of Power and Queen Street. -
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Grave Marker – Photo courtesy Wilf Schofield, England
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