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Son of Walter James Dowden and Elsie Violet May Dowden, of Brantford, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Lance Sergeant Walter Roy Dowden
Digital gallery of
Lance Sergeant Walter Roy Dowden
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
Digital gallery of
Lance Sergeant Walter Roy Dowden
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
Digital gallery of
Lance Sergeant Walter Roy Dowden
This was handed down to me a few years ago, thought i would try and share with others
Digital gallery of
Lance Sergeant Walter Roy Dowden
Lance Sargean Royal Canadian Artillery
Digital gallery of
Lance Sergeant Walter Roy Dowden
From the Toronto Star June 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lance Sergeant Walter Roy Dowden
Lance Sergeant Walter Roy Dowden is also commemorated on the Memorial at Putot-en-Bessin, FR … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
Digital gallery of
Lance Sergeant Walter Roy Dowden
This monument is dedicated to the memory of the Canadian soldiers of the Royal Winnipeg Rifles and to all other Canadian combatants who played a part in the Liberation of Putot-en-Bessin on 7 June 1944. Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022.
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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
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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
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This was handed down to me a few years ago, thought i would try and share with others
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Lance Sargean Royal Canadian Artillery
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From the Toronto Star June 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Lance Sergeant Walter Roy Dowden is also commemorated on the Memorial at Putot-en-Bessin, FR … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
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This monument is dedicated to the memory of the Canadian soldiers of the Royal Winnipeg Rifles and to all other Canadian combatants who played a part in the Liberation of Putot-en-Bessin on 7 June 1944. Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022.
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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