Name: Percy James Robicheau Regiment/Service: North Shore (New Brunswick) Regiment, R.C.I.C. Service No: F/8850 Rank: Lance Corporal Date of Birth: February 15, 1918 Place of Birth: Yarmouth, NS Date of Enlistment: August 21, 1943 Place of Enlistment: Halifax, NS Address at Enlistment: Yarmouth, NS Age at Enlistment: 25 Height; 5 feet, 6 inches Trade: Cotton Mill Worker Employment at Enlistment: Cosmos Imperial Mills, Yarmouth (9 years) Marital Status: Married Religion: Roman Catholic Next of Kin: Mrs. Martha M. Robicheau (Wife) Argyle St., Yarmouth NS Date of Death: April 5, 1945 Age at Death: 27 Cemetery: Holten Canadian War Cemetery (Overijssel, Netherlands) Grave Reference: II. G. 11. The 96th name on the WWII list of the Yarmouth War Memorial Commemorated on page 559 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance Displayed in the Memorial Chamber of the Peace Tower in Ottawa on November 23 Percy was the son of James Andrew Robicheau (1882-1978) and Susan (Atkins) Robicheau (1886- 1964), and husband of Martha Mary (Deveau) Robicheau (b. 1921), of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, and father of Lawrence Raymond Robicheau (born January 27, 1945). His siblings were Francis ‘Frank’ Alfred Robicheau (1905-1998), Mary Cecilia Robicheau (b. 1907), Mildred Robicheau (1910-1998), Raymond Robicheau (1913-1937), Reginald Robicheau (1920- 2015), and Anna Bernice Robicheau (1923-1999). Lance Corporal Percy James Robicheau was killed in action while serving in Holland. He served in Canada between August 19, 1943, and October 13, 1944; in England between October 10, 1944, and November 23, 1944; and in Northwest Europe between November 24, 1944, and April 4, 1945. He was initially buried in the town of Almen, Lochen, Gelderland, Netherlands, and reinterred at the Holten Canadian War Cemetery in Overijssel, Netherlands. Sources and Information: Commonwealth War Graves Commission Veterans Affairs Canada