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Military service
Service number:
907529
Age:
21
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Machine Gun Corps
Division:
4th Company
Birth:
April 3, 1896
Enlistment:
March 27, 1916
Regina, Saskatchewan
Death:
November 9, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 32
Additional information
Son of Mr and Mrs John Cowan of Thornhill, Manitoba.
Digital gallery of Private Franklin Erwin Cowan
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Inscription
Menin Gate Memorial inscription. -
Attestation Paper
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Newspaper Clipping
In memory of the men and women memorialized on the pages of the Winnipeg Evening Tribune during World War One. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
In memory of the men and women memorialized on the pages of the Winnipeg Evening Tribune during World War One. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Inscription
on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Menin Gate Memorial
Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Manitoba Free Press newspaper c.1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Franklin Erwin Cowan
Digital gallery of
Private Franklin Erwin Cowan
Digital gallery of
Private Franklin Erwin Cowan
Digital gallery of
Private Franklin Erwin Cowan
Digital gallery of
Private Franklin Erwin Cowan
Digital gallery of
Private Franklin Erwin Cowan
Digital gallery of
Private Franklin Erwin Cowan
Digital gallery of
Private Franklin Erwin Cowan
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 221 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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