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Military service
Service number:
K/69770
Age:
20
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Seaforth Highlanders of Canada
Birth:
August 8, 1923
Armstrong, British Columbia
Enlistment:
October 26, 1942
Kamloops, British Columbia
Death:
October 7, 1943
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
VIII. H. 14.
Additional information
Son of Owen Stacey Diggens and Elinor Stanger Diggens, of Kamloops, British Columbia. Brother of Douglas, Stacy, Walter Ernest, Marguerite Elinor, Barbara Joyce.
Digital gallery of Private Harry Owen Diggens
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War Memorial
Kamloops Cenotaph, Memorial Park, Battle Street and 2nd Avenue, Kamloops, British Columbia. Includes honour roll tablets listing 189 names for World War I and 92 names for World War II. Unveiled on May 24th, 1925. Inscribed: C.E.F. - NOR TIME NOR TIDE CAN EVER EFFACE THE MEMORY OF OUR GLORIOUS DEAD. -
Inscription
Kamloops Cenotaph, British Columbia. Detail of the Tablet listing names for World War II.
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Private Harry Owen Diggens
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Private Harry Owen Diggens
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 153 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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