Name: Rank: Service No: Service: Date of Birth: Place of Birth: Date of Enlistment: Place of Enlistment: Address at Enlistment: Age at Enlistment: Date of Death: Age at Death: Cemetery: Reference:

Harry Cecil Roper

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Harry Cecil Roper Lieutenant CDN/652 5th Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment (the Duke of Edinburgh’s) 43rd (Wessex) Infantry Division, British Army November 30, 1918 Glace Bay, Cape Breton, NS October 14, 1939 Sydney, Cape Breton, NS New Victoria, Cape Breton, NS 20 October 1, 1944 24 Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery, Netherlands 14. A. 3. Commemorated on page 432 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance Displayed in the Memorial Chamber of the Peace Tower in Ottawa on September 19 Henry ‘Harry’ C. Roper was the son of Charles Purcell Roper (1875-1964) and Annie Mae (Townes) Roper (1889-1945) of New Victoria, Nova Scotia. He had three sisters, Alice Louise Beatrice (Roper) Head (1915-1998), Emma Florence (Roper) Antle (1921-2009), Annie Elsie Roper, and four brothers; Edward Isaac Roper (1910-1911), Albert L Roper, Sergeant Arthur P Roper, serving overseas, and Charles Russell Roper, serving overseas in the RCAF. His service file records he was a reliable, self-confident, hard worker who shows initiative; noting he’s [strong] his commitment, has good common sense, developed well in the field training and will make a good officer. A member of the Royal Canadian Infantry Corps, he transferred to the British Army and served with the Wiltshire Regiment (the Duke of Edinburgh’s) under the CANLOAN program. Lt. Harry Cecil Roper was killed in action in Northwest Europe. He was serving in Holland at the time of his death. He was interred at the Arnhem British Cemetery in the Netherlands (Plot 14 Row A, Grave 3), now known as the Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery (also referred to as the Airborne War Cemetery).