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Military service
Service number:
410569
Age:
20
Rank:
Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
Division:
"C" Coy. 38th Bn.
Birth:
September 4, 1898
Bedford, England
Enlistment:
May 11, 1915
Kingston, Ontario
Death:
September 29, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
II. A. 18.
Additional information
Son of John et Mary Ann O'Donovan of Carleton Place, Ontario. Brother of Private Denis O'Donovan, Sergeant Patrick O'Donovan and Private Daniel O'Donovan, killed in action on 9 April 1917 at Vimy Ridge.
Private O'Donovan and Private Percy Grenville Hughes, another Carleton Place lad, together lost their lives on 29 September 1918 and are buried mere feet apart at Bourlon Wood Cemetery.
Digital gallery of Corporal Cornelius O'Donovan
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Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
Digital gallery of
Corporal Cornelius O'Donovan
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 479 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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