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Son of John Ball Dow and Mary A. Dow, of Brighton, England; Whitby, Ontario. Reverted from Captain in 151st Bn., Edmonton, Alberta, in order to go overseas.
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Lieutenant Robert John Gunn Dow
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Lieutenant Robert John Gunn Dow
From the "University of Toronto / Roll of Service 1914-1918", published in 1921.
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Lieutenant Robert John Gunn Dow
Memorial Plaque commemorating barristers and students, members of the Alberta law society, who died while serving in the First World War.
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Lieutenant Robert John Gunn Dow
Torontonensis 1906 (University of Toronto Yearbook), pg. 125. Caption: Robert John Gunn Dow. Courses - Political Science and Honour History. Member Athletic Assoc. Executive; Capt. Assoc. Football Team; II. Rugby Team; 1906 Rugby Team.
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Lieutenant Robert John Gunn Dow
Torontonensis 1906 (University of Toronto Yearbook), pg. 139. Caption: R. J. G. Gow / T.C.A.A.A. Executive Committee 1905-06.
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Lieutenant Robert John Gunn Dow
Torontonensis 1906 (University of Toronto Yearbook), pg. 141. Caption: R. J. G. Dow / 1906 Rugby Team.
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Lieutenant Robert John Gunn Dow
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
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Lieutenant Robert John Gunn Dow
Memorial Room, Soldiers' Tower, University of Toronto. Photo: David Pike, 2010.
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Robert John Gunn Dow
The Soldiers' Tower was built at University of Toronto between 1919-1924 in memory of those lost to the University in the Great War. The name of "Lt. R. J. G. Dow 49th Bn" is among the 628 names carved on the Memorial Screen, shown at photo left. Photo: K. Parks
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Lieutenant Robert John Gunn Dow
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Lieutenant Robert John Gunn Dow
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 601 of 1076.
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From the "University of Toronto / Roll of Service 1914-1918", published in 1921.
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Memorial Plaque commemorating barristers and students, members of the Alberta law society, who died while serving in the First World War.
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Torontonensis 1906 (University of Toronto Yearbook), pg. 125. Caption: Robert John Gunn Dow. Courses - Political Science and Honour History. Member Athletic Assoc. Executive; Capt. Assoc. Football Team; II. Rugby Team; 1906 Rugby Team.
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Torontonensis 1906 (University of Toronto Yearbook), pg. 139. Caption: R. J. G. Gow / T.C.A.A.A. Executive Committee 1905-06.
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Torontonensis 1906 (University of Toronto Yearbook), pg. 141. Caption: R. J. G. Dow / 1906 Rugby Team.
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Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
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Memorial Room, Soldiers' Tower, University of Toronto. Photo: David Pike, 2010.
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The Soldiers' Tower was built at University of Toronto between 1919-1924 in memory of those lost to the University in the Great War. The name of "Lt. R. J. G. Dow 49th Bn" is among the 628 names carved on the Memorial Screen, shown at photo left. Photo: K. Parks
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Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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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 601 of 1076.
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Page 230 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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MENIN GATE (YPRES) MEMORIAL Belgium
The Menin Gate Memorial is situated at the eastern side of the town of Ypres (now Ieper) in the Province of West Flanders, on the road to Menin and Courtrai. It bears the names of 55,000 men who were lost without trace during the defence of the Ypres Salient in the First World War. Designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield and erected by the Imperial (now Commonwealth) War Graves Commission, it consists of a Hall of Memory", 36.6 metres long by 20.1 metres wide. In the centre are broad staircases leading to the ramparts which overlook the moat, and to pillared loggias which run the whole length of the structure. On the inner walls of the Hall, on the side of the staircases and on the walls of the loggias, panels of Portland stone bear the names of the dead, inscribed by regiment and corps. Carved in stone above the central arch are the words:
TO THE ARMIES OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE WHO STOOD HERE FROM 1914 TO 1918 AND TO THOSE OF THEIR DEAD WHO HAVE NO KNOWN GRAVE.
Over the two staircases leading from the main Hall is the inscription:
HERE ARE RECORDED NAMES OF OFFICERS AND MEN WHO FELL IN YPRES SALIENT BUT TO WHOM THE FORTUNE OF WAR DENIED THE KNOWN AND HONOURED BURIAL GIVEN TO THEIR COMRADES IN DEATH.
The dead are remembered to this day in a simple ceremony that takes place every evening at 8:00 p.m. All traffic through the gateway in either direction is halted, and two buglers (on special occasions four) move to the centre of the Hall and sound the Last Post. Two silver trumpets for use in the ceremony are a gift to the Ypres Last Post Committee by an officer of the Royal Canadian Artillery, who served with the 10th Battery, of St. Catharines, Ontario, in Ypres in April 1915."
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