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Military service
Service number:
91538
Age:
29
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
Division:
27th Bn.
Death:
November 6, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 24 - 26 - 28 - 30
Additional information
Son of W. J. and Eleanor Dowding, of 98, Oak St., Toronto.
Digital gallery of Private Albert Wood Dowding
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Commemorative Plaque
"The bronze memorial tablet, sacred to the memory of those members of our congregation, who laid down their lives in the recent great war, and subscribed for by the members of the congregation"-this statement appeared in a 1922 church publication. -
All Saints' Church's Montage
All Saints' Church was established in 1872 as an Anglican church and is located at 315 Dundas Street East in downtown Toronto. 196 members of the church served in World War I, and 28 lost their lives. The 1922 WWI memorial tablet can be seen in this photo. -
Newspaper Clipping
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Article
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Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Circumstances of death registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR. Surnames: Don to Drzewiecki. Microform Sequence 29; Volume Number 31829_B016738. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 173. Page 615 of 1076. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram October 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram October 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star Weekly c.1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Albert Wood Dowding
Digital gallery of
Private Albert Wood Dowding
Digital gallery of
Private Albert Wood Dowding
Digital gallery of
Private Albert Wood Dowding
Digital gallery of
Private Albert Wood Dowding
Digital gallery of
Private Albert Wood Dowding
Digital gallery of
Private Albert Wood Dowding
Digital gallery of
Private Albert Wood Dowding
Digital gallery of
Private Albert Wood Dowding
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 230 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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