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Military service
Service number:
113186
Age:
27
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
4th Canadian Mounted Rifles (2nd Central Ontario Regt.)
Death:
June 2, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XXXII. C. 13.
Additional information
Son of James and Catherine Downs, of Belleville, Ontario; husband of Mary O'Neill Youngs (formerly Downs), of Colborne, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private William Bernard Douns
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Grave Marker
A photograph of the headstone at the New Irish Farm Cemetery, just outside the town of Ieper (Ypres), Belgium. May he rest in peace. (J. Stephens) -
Epitaph
Epitaph: 'Love and Remembrance. Live forever, Sadly missed by his children' -
Cemetery
The New Irish Farm Cemetery, near the town of Ieper (Ypres), Belgium. (J. Stephens) -
Entrance
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Cemetery
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Cross of Sacrifice
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Grave marker
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Circumstances of death registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR. Surnames: Don to Drzewiecki. Microform Sequence 29; Volume Number 31829_B016738. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 173. Page 553 of 1076.
Digital gallery of
Private William Bernard Douns
Digital gallery of
Private William Bernard Douns
Digital gallery of
Private William Bernard Douns
Digital gallery of
Private William Bernard Douns
Digital gallery of
Private William Bernard Douns
Digital gallery of
Private William Bernard Douns
Digital gallery of
Private William Bernard Douns
Digital gallery of
Private William Bernard Douns
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 79 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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