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Military service
Service number:
148387
Age:
23
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
Division:
78th Bn.
Birth:
April 21, 1893
Enlistment:
Manitoba
Death:
April 9, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
3.C.8.
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Son of Mr. and Mrs. James E. Cowie, of Forfar, Angus. Brother of Agnes McKenzie, of Pipestone, Manitoba.
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In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 221 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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CANADIAN CEMETERY No. 2 Pas de Calais, France
The CANADIAN CEMETERY No. 2 is about 2.5 kilometres north of the village of Neuville-St. Vaast. The village is about 6 kilometres north of Arras and 1 kilometre east of the main road from Arras to Bethune. The cemetery is on a spur road turning left from the road to Givenchy-en-Gohelle, about 1 kilometre south of the Canadian Memorial at Vimy.
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