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Military service
Service number:
73647
Age:
22
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Saskatchewan Regiment)
Division:
'B' Company, 28th Battalion
Birth:
November 6, 1893
Enlistment:
Regina, Saskatchewan
Death:
June 6, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 18 - 26 - 28
Additional information
Son of William and Rose Cowles, of 5, Sadler St., Oxford, England.
Digital gallery of Private John Arthur Cowles
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Photo of JOHN ARTHUR COWLES
In memory of the men from the 28th Battalion CEF who went to war and did not return. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Photo of John Cowles
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Photo of John Cowles
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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 729 of 900. -
Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Private John Arthur Cowles
Digital gallery of
Private John Arthur Cowles
Digital gallery of
Private John Arthur Cowles
Digital gallery of
Private John Arthur Cowles
Digital gallery of
Private John Arthur Cowles
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 71 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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