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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.
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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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