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Military service
Age:
25
Rank:
Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Western Ontario Regiment)
Division:
47th Bn.
Birth:
January 24, 1892
Victoria, British Columbia
Enlistment:
June 15, 1916
Montreal, Québec
Death:
April 11, 1917
Vimy Ridge, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. H. 71.
Additional information
Son of Wellington J. and Elizabeth Sketchley Dowler. Graduate (B.A. Degree) of McGill University, Montreal.
Digital gallery of Lieutenant John Wilton Douglas Dowler
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Honour Roll
From the "McGill Honour Roll, 1914-1918". McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, 1926. -
Newspaper Clipping
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War memorial
In Memory of Esquimalt's War Dead 1914-1918; Esquimalt, British Columbia Lieutenant John Wilton Douglas Dowler -
Newspaper Clipping
Newspaper clipping from the Daily Colonist of October 7, 1917. Image taken from web address of http://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist59y259uvic#page/n0/mode/1up -
Newspaper clipping
From the Daily Colonist of April 16, 1917. Image taken from web address of http://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist59y109uvic#page/n0/mode/1up -
Circumstances of death registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR. Surnames: Don to Drzewiecki. Microform Sequence 29; Volume Number 31829_B016738. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 173. Page 633 of 1076. -
Photo of John Wilton Douglas Dowler
From the Victoria (B. C.) Times newspaper c.1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Victoria (B. C.) Times newspaper c.1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Lieutenant John Wilton Douglas Dowler
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant John Wilton Douglas Dowler
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant John Wilton Douglas Dowler
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant John Wilton Douglas Dowler
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant John Wilton Douglas Dowler
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant John Wilton Douglas Dowler
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant John Wilton Douglas Dowler
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant John Wilton Douglas Dowler
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 230 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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