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Military service
Service number:
A/88079
Age:
20
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Lincoln and Welland Regiment, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
September 28, 1923
Byron, Ontario
Enlistment:
February 1, 1943
Camp Ipperwash, Ontario
Death:
August 26, 1944
France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XXIII. D. 2.
Additional information
Son of Milton and Elizabeth Ann Bowern, of London, Ontario.
Brother of Flossy, Maggie, Edna, Ada , Olive, Mabel, Percy, Wesley and Private Jerry Milton Bowern, Lincoln and Welland Regiment, killed in action 28 August 1944.
Additional citations
1939-45 Star, France and Germany Star, Defence Medal, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and clasp, War Medal 1939-45.
Digital gallery of Private Malcolm John Bowern
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Photo of Malcolm John Bowern
This photography is one of two brothers from London, both serving in the same regiment and both were killed within one day of each other. Malcolm John Bowern, is on the left and his brother Jerry Milton Bowern, is on the right. Both members served as part of the Lincoln and Welland Regiment. -
Brothers
Source: City of London Remembrance Book online since 2005 -
Newspaper clipping
Toronto Star Pages of the Past online archive. Army casualty list 650 -
Bowern Lake
Memorial Geo-Naming, Ontario; BOWERN LAKE -
Bowern Lake
Memorial Geo-Naming Ontario; BOWERN LAKE / Map -
Telegram
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Memorial
Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
Digital gallery of
Private Malcolm John Bowern
Digital gallery of
Private Malcolm John Bowern
Digital gallery of
Private Malcolm John Bowern
Digital gallery of
Private Malcolm John Bowern
Digital gallery of
Private Malcolm John Bowern
Digital gallery of
Private Malcolm John Bowern
Digital gallery of
Private Malcolm John Bowern
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Commemorated on:
Page 255 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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BRETTEVILLE-SUR-LAIZE CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY Calvados, France
This cemetery lies on the west side of the main road from Caen to Falaise (route N158) and just north of the village of Cintheaux. Bretteville-sur-Laize is a village and commune in the department of the Calvados, some 16 kilometres south of Caen. The village of Bretteville lies 3 kilometres south-west of the Cemetery. Buried here are those who died during the later stages of the battle of Normandy, the capture of Caen and the thrust southwards (led initially by the 4th Canadian and 1st Polish Armoured Divisions), to close the Falaise Gap, and thus seal off the German divisions fighting desperately to escape being trapped west of the Seine. Almost every unit of Canadian 2nd Corps is represented in the Cemetery. There are about 3,000 allied forces casualties of the Second World War commemorated in this site.
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