Roche Percee
IN  MEMORIAM
WWI  -  WWII

 


THE RED ENSIGN
THEY FOUGHT UNDER THIS FLAG
 

For God and Country

These Gave Their Lives
LEST WE FORGET
 

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning 
We will remember them.
 

 
1914 - 1918
Died in the Service of his Country

John David Dunbar  **

Honour Roll
Harry Gilbert Forsythe Reg #1250320  b-Jan 26, 1895
Ernest Hanson  **
Elmer Emile Hoehne Reg # 260992  b- Sept 11, 1897
reported killed in action, Oct 25, 1918
 William James Knight Reg#1250321  b- Sept 15, 1898
Jacob (Jake) Koehn Reg# 252115 b- Feb 1, 1893
Julius Langen  Reg #3353263  b- Sept 18, 1891-July 6, 1957 (Buried in Bienfait Cemetery)
Frederick Cecil Wynne-Jones- Reg# 426302 

Wounded in Action
Harold P. Thompson- Dec 1, 1917 #926049

Links above to 
Soldiers of the First World War 
Canadian Archives Web page
**More Info I couldn't locate
1939 - 1945
Killed in Action

Robert Arthur Thompson
Private,
South Saskatchewan Regiment, R.C.I.C.
Died July 20, 1944, Age 27,
 Service # L/103040
Buried plot IV.E. 7,
 Brettevillle-Sur-Laize,
Canadian War Cemetery, Calvados, France


William James (Bill) Knight
b- Sept 15,1898 in Roche Percee,
d- Aug 19, 1942, age 43

WWI
Enlisted Apr 19,1917, age 18 1/2 yrs old
Reg #1250321
Rank- Lance Corporal
but was not sent overseas.

WWII
Enlisted in May 1940,
Went overseas, Dec 1940.
Svc #L13131
Died during the Dieppe Raid
Lance Corporal, Army, SSR, R.C.I.C.
Son of Mathew and Frances Knight of Roche Percee
2nd of 8 children;
husband of Daisy Mae Knight, (nee Mathieson) of Estevan
Commemorated on Page 87
 of the WWII Book of Remembrance
Dieppe Canadian War Cemetery (Hautot-Sur-Mer)
Seine-Maritime, France -Grave Ref: B. 44.
Geo Memorial- Knight Lake- Lat 55°39' Long 104°07'

Wounded
Stanley Long
  born Mar 11, 1920-
died- Dec 29, 1991
 (Buried in Bienfait Cemetery)

Decorated
Russel S. Earl
 (unable to find any info on him)

Overseas Service
George H. Brinkworth
Jas. Blondeau
Frazer Dunbar
Allan Duncan
Matthew Duncan
Clifford Earl
Kenneth Earl
Lawrence C. Earl
Russel S. Earl
Alvin Jahn
Arthur Jahn
Theodore Jahn
Albert Ed Knight
William J. Knight
Cecil Koehn
Raymond Leonard
Albert E. Long
Stanley Long
James MacQuarrie
Lester Mann (L. Cpl. L. M. Mann,  reported wounded, Feb 8, 1945)
William Mann
Charles Murray
Stephen O'Stepchuk
Merle Pearson
Hugh Robinson
A. Samenook
Elmer Scholapkhol (Schlapkohl?)
Arnold Scholapkhol (Schlapkohl?)
Donald Sears
Gordon Sears
John Sears  (Pte. J. D. Sears reported Prisoner of War, Oct 13, 1944)
Richard Sears
Stanley Smith
Robert A. Thompson
Harold Winstanley
William Winstanley
George Wood
Richard Wrigley

Services in Canada
Walter Battersby
John Bonchal
David Dunbar
Allan Edwardson
Magnus Gunderson
Ernest Hanson
Irvin Hanson
Elna MacQuarrie
Alfred McDonald
Ernest Morine
Kenneth Morine
Ray Morine
Kenneth Olson
Alex O'Stepchuk
William Pearson
Arthur Robinson
Arnold Scholapkhol
Walter Sears

List above transcribed from a 1980 Roche Percee
Historic Edition Newspaper
which my mother saved

   WE HONOUR THEM ALL! 
BECAUSE OF THESE MEN- AND OTHERS LIKE THEM
WE CAN FLY OUR NEW CANADA FLAG
AND BE PROUD AND FREE CANADIANS
Errors or Omissions
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