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Military service
Service number:
430629
Age:
23
Rank:
Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Alberta Regiment)
Division:
10th
Enlistment:
Victoria, British Columbia
Death:
September 11, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
IV. H. 2.
Additional information
Son of William Jackson Coward and Eleanor Coward (nee Pack), of Sidney, British Columbia.
Digital gallery of Corporal George Jackson Coward
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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 685 of 900. Exhumed from Mouquet Farm and Thiepval- Pozieres Road, 4 miles North Eat of Albert and re-interred at POZIERES BRITISH CEMETERY during the concentration of graves process. -
Photo of GEORGE JACKSON COWARD
From the Daily Colonist of October 1, 1916. Image taken from web address of https://archive.org/details/dailycolonist58y253uvic/page/n6/mode/1up?view=theater -
Newspaper clipping
From the Victoria (B. C.) Times newspaper c. 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Corporal George Jackson Coward
Digital gallery of
Corporal George Jackson Coward
Digital gallery of
Corporal George Jackson Coward
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 71 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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