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Lance Sergeant Walter Roy Dowden

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Military service

Service number: B/11194
Age: 24
Rank: Lance Sergeant
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Artillery
Division: 12 Field Regt.
Birth: July 17, 1919 Plymouth, Devonshire, United Kingdom
Enlistment: June 12, 1940 Ontario
Death: June 9, 1944 In the field, France

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: II. D. 7.
Additional information
Son of Walter James Dowden and Elsie Violet May Dowden, of Brantford, Ontario.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 294 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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RYES WAR CEMETERY Calvados, France

Leave Bayeux on the D12 to the east; at the village of Sommervieu carry straight on, following the D112, and after 3 kilometres turn right on to the D87. After climbing round a bend to the left, the cemetery will be found on the left hand side.

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