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Corporal Cornelius O'Donovan

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Military service

Service number: 410569
Age: 20
Rank: Corporal
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
Division: "C" Coy. 38th Bn.
Birth: September 4, 1898 Bedford, England
Enlistment: May 11, 1915 Ontario
Death: September 29, 1918

Burial/memorial information

BOURLON WOOD CEMETERY
Grave reference: II. A. 18.
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Son of John et Mary Ann O'Donovan of Carleton Place, Ontario. Brother of Private Denis O'Donovan, Sergeant Patrick O'Donovan and Private Daniel O'Donovan, killed in action on 9 April 1917 at Vimy Ridge. Private O'Donovan and Private Percy Grenville Hughes, another Carleton Place lad, together lost their lives on 29 September 1918 and are buried mere feet apart at Bourlon Wood Cemetery.

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 479 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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BOURLON WOOD CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France

Bourlon is a village approximately 6 kilometres west of Cambrai. It lies between the main Cambrai to Bapaume road (N30) and the Cambrai to Arras road (D939). The BOURLON WOOD CEMETERY is signposted from the centre of the village as is the Canadian Forces Memorial. On approaching the Memorial the road should be followed to the left where an unsurfaced track descends about 200 metres to the cemetery.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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