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Military service
Age:
27
Rank:
Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
Division:
16th Bn.
Enlistment:
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Death:
April 9, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
V. E. 17.
Additional information
Son of John and Catherine Cowan, of Kilmarnock, Scotland.
Digital gallery of Lieutenant John Cowan
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Pierre Tombale
Courtesy Wilf Schofield, England -
Coupure de presse
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 -
Registres de circonstances du décès
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: CORBI to COZNI. Microform Sequence 23; Volume Number 31829_B016732. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 167. Page 665 of 900.
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant John Cowan
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant John Cowan
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant John Cowan
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 221 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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