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Sapper JAMES ROCHE

Service Number: 2187742
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

6 Boring Sec.

Date of Death

Died 26 October 1944

Age 32 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BAYEUX WAR CEMETERY

II. D. 6.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Patrick and Margaret Roche; husband of Ellen Roche, of Midleton, Co. Cork, Irish Republic.
  • Personal Inscription "SACRED HEART OF JESUS HAVE MERCY ON HIS SOUL" LOVING WIFE NELLIE AND SON GERARD
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Buried or commemorated at

BAYEUX WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 4654
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