Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Rosila Riffou
In memory of:
Private Rosila Riffou
April 13, 1917
Military Service
889408
18
Army
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
22nd Bn.
Additional Information
January 15, 1899
Cap des Rosiers, Gaspésie, Quebec
May 3, 1916
Gaspé, Quebec
Orphaned son of Jérome Riffou and Emma Ouellet. He was adopted by Mathieu Riffou and Émilie Smith (uncle and aunt).
He was baptized Joseph-John-Ovila, and successively went by the first names of Ovila, Odila and Rosila.
Commemorated on Page 316 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.
Burial Information
ECOIVRES MILITARY CEMETERY
Pas de Calais, France
V. F. 17.
Mont St Eloi is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, 8 kilometres north-west of Arras. The village stands on high ground overlooking the battlefields of Vimy and Souchez and the main Bethune-Arras road, and the ruined towers that rise from it were used as an observation post during the French attacks at Neuville-St Vaast and Givenchy in May 1915. Ecoivres is a hamlet lying at the foot of the hill, to the south-west and about 1.5 kilometres from Mont St Eloi on the Arras-St Pol line. The ECOIVRES MILITARY CEMETERY is on the D49 road.
Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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