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Private WILLIAM BERNARD DOWNS

Service Number: 113186
Regiment & Unit/Ship

4th Canadian Mounted Rifles Battalion

Date of Death

Died 02 June 1916

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

NEW IRISH FARM CEMETERY

XXXII. C. 13.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service Canadian
  • Additional Info Son of James and Catherine Downs, of Belleville, Ontario; husband of Mary O'Neill Youngs (formerly Downs), of Colborne, Ontario.
  • Personal Inscription LOVE AND REMEMBRANCE LIVE FOREVER SADLY MISSED BY HIS CHILDREN
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Buried or commemorated at

NEW IRISH FARM CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 4759
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