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Military service
Service number:
K/78466
Age:
40
Rank:
Troop Quartermaster Sergeant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
British Columbia Dragoons, R.C.A.C.
Division:
9th Canadian Armoured Regiment
Birth:
March 12, 1904
Hartney, Manitoba
Enlistment:
August 7, 1940
Vancouver, British Columbia
Death:
September 3, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
III. B. 14.
Additional information
Son of Harry Alston Cowan and Serena Olga Cowan. Husband of Sara Margaret (nee MacDonald) Cowan, of Vancouver, British Columbia. Brother of Carl, Harvey and Ruth.
Additional citations
1939-45 Star, Italy Star, Defence Medal, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp, War Medal 1939-45.
Digital gallery of Troop Quartermaster Sergeant Linton Kennedy Cowan
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Letter
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Grave marker
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Letter
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From a World War 2 issue of the Vancouver Province c.1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Troop Quartermaster Sergeant Linton Kennedy Cowan
Digital gallery of
Troop Quartermaster Sergeant Linton Kennedy Cowan
Digital gallery of
Troop Quartermaster Sergeant Linton Kennedy Cowan
Digital gallery of
Troop Quartermaster Sergeant Linton Kennedy Cowan
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 281 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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