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Military service
Service number:
R/7478
Age:
20
Rank:
Flight Sergeant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
1. R.C.A.F. 58 (R.A.F.) Sqdn
Death:
August 23, 1942
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Grave 664.
Additional information
Son of Vernon Colston Cowan and Dorothy Kate Cowan, of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Digital gallery of Flight Sergeant John William Cannell Cowan
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Commemorated on:
Page 66 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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