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Lance Bombardier HENRY WILLIAM COWIE

Service Number: C/781
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Canadian Artillery

14 Field Regt.

Date of Death

Died 18 October 1944

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ADEGEM CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY

VII. A. 8.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service Canadian
  • Additional Info Son of Alexander and Margaret Cowie; husband of Mary Cowie, of Wallsend-on-Tyne, Northumberland, England.
  • Personal Inscription THERE IS IN THIS EARTH A RICHER DUST CONCEALED, A DUST WHOM CANADA BORE
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Buried or commemorated at

ADEGEM CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY
Oost-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 1158
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