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Military service
Age:
29
Rank:
Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division:
73rd Bn.
Enlistment:
Victoria, British Columbia
Death:
August 20, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
IX. B. 6.
Additional information
Son of Robert David Russell Cowan and Catherine Florence Cowan, of Bushley Vicarage, Tewkesbury, England.
Digital gallery of Lieutenant Alan William Russell Cowan
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Memorial
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War Memorial
War Memorial, Salmon Arm & District, British Columbia. Inscribed:<P> IN MEMORY OF THE MEN FROM SALMON ARM DISTRICT WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 1918. OUR HEROIC DEAD / THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE. -
Grave Marker
Photo courtesy of Wilf Schofield, England -
Circumstances of Death Registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: CORBI to COZNI. Microform Sequence 23; Volume Number 31829_B016732. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 167. Page 647 of 900. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Daily Colonist of August 29, 1916. Image taken from web address of http://archive.org/details/dailycolonist58y224uvic/mode/1up?view=theater. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Daily Colonist of September 19, 1916. Image taken from web address of https://archive.org/details/dailycolonist58y242uvic/page/n8/mode/1up?view=theater.
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Alan William Russell Cowan
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Alan William Russell Cowan
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Alan William Russell Cowan
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Alan William Russell Cowan
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Alan William Russell Cowan
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Alan William Russell Cowan
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 71 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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