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Military service
Service number:
195539
Age:
24
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Western Ontario Regiment)
Division:
18th Bn.
Birth:
January 11, 1893
Trent Bridge, Ontario
Enlistment:
January 20, 1916
Ontario
Death:
April 9, 1917
Vimy Ridge, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 2. Col 2
Additional information
Son of Joseph and Victoria Cowan, of Campbellford, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private Richard Oliver Cowan
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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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ZIVY CRATER, THELUS Pas de Calais, France
Zivy Crater (originally called CB1) is on the south side of the road from Thelus to Neuville-St. Vaast, to the south of Lichfield Crater.
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