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Military service
Service number:
429185
Age:
41
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment)
Division:
7th Bn.
Birth:
June 24, 1875
Enlistment:
New Westminister, British Columbia
Death:
October 12, 1916
Burial/memorial information
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Son of Patrick Cowell, of Inniscrone, Co. Sligo, Ireland. A Petty Sessions' Clerk at Inniscrone.
Digital gallery of Private John Aloysius Cowell
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Memorial
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens)
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Private John Aloysius Cowell
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 71 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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