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Flight Lieutenant Henry Hugh Cowan

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Military service

Service number: J/85095
Age: 31
Rank: Flight Lieutenant
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Air Force
Birth: August 18, 1915 Ottawa, Ontario
Enlistment: June 29, 1942 Ontario
Death: September 15, 1946 Estevan, Saskatchewan

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Sec. 27. Lot G. Grave 14.
Additional information

Son of Alexander Benson Cowan and Frances Elinor Cowan, of Ottawa, Ontario.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 583 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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OTTAWA (BEECHWOOD) CEMETERY Ontario, Canada

OTTAWA (BEECHWOOD) CEMETERY contains 98 Commonwealth burials of the First World War and 113 from the Second World War. Many of the graves are in the two veterans plots, where there is also a Cross of Sacrifice dedicated to all service casualties buried in the cemetery.

The OTTAWA CREMATION MEMORIAL is in a shelter adjoining the newer of the veterans plots in the cemetery and commemorates 26 Second World War servicemen whose remains were cremated elsewhere in Canada and the U.S.A.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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