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Lieutenant WILLIAM MCDONALD COWAN

Service Number: CDN/615
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Canadian Infantry Corps

Date of Death

Died 16 November 1944

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

GROESBEEK CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY

XV. B. 10.

Netherlands

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 5th Bn. Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
  • Country of Service Canadian
  • Additional Info Son of William A. and Edith Marian Cowan, of Guelph, Ontario.
  • Personal Inscription AGE SHALL NOT WEARY THEM, NOR THE YEARS CONDEMN. WE WILL REMEMBER THEM
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Buried or commemorated at

GROESBEEK CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY
Gelderland Netherlands
Number of casualties: 2619
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