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Military service
Age:
27
Rank:
Captain
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Hamilton Light Infantry, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
October 25, 1914
St. Catharines, Ontario
Enlistment:
April 10, 1940
Hamilton, Ontario
Death:
August 19, 1942
Dieppe, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 24. Column 1.
Additional information
Son of Charles and Grace Bowery of Brantford, Ontario. Husband of Evelyn Bowery of Brantford, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Captain Richard Charles Waudby Bowery
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Photo of Richard Charles Waudby Bowery
Enlisted two years before the war in the Dufferin and Haldliman Rifles of Canada, transferred to Royal Hamilton Light Infantry. Kill during the Dieppe raid, Mentioned in Dispatches for his bravery posthumously. -
Memorial scroll
Royal Hamilton Light Infantry memorial scroll for Dieppe. On display at the Lieutenant-Colonel John Weir Foote VC, CD Armoury, Hamilton, Ontario. -
Brookwood Memorial
Photo taken by John S. Brehaut during the Road to Freedom Tour of 2003. -
Biography
Album of Honour for Brant County World War 11 1939 - 1945<P> Published in 1946 by The Brantford Kinsmen Club and submitted with their permission by Operation Picture Me -
Album Cover
Album of Honour for Brant County World War 11 1939 - 1945<P> Published in 1946 by The Brantford Kinsmen Club and submitted with their permission by Operation Picture Me -
Inscription
Captain RICHARD CHARLES WAUDBY BOWERY is one of four members of the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps, who went missing at Dieppe on August 19, 1942 and were subsequently presumed dead, who are commemorated on this Panel at the Brookwood Memorial, Surrey, United Kingdom. -
Newspaper clipping
Source: Hamilton Spectator, August 21, 1942 -
Newspaper Clipping
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star August 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star August 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram August 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram August 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Hamilton (Ontario) Spectator c. 1940. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Hamilton Spectator c.1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Captain Richard Charles Waudby Bowery
Digital gallery of
Captain Richard Charles Waudby Bowery
Digital gallery of
Captain Richard Charles Waudby Bowery
Digital gallery of
Captain Richard Charles Waudby Bowery
Digital gallery of
Captain Richard Charles Waudby Bowery
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 59 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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