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Military service
Service number:
B/11194
Age:
24
Rank:
Lance Sergeant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Artillery
Division:
12 Field Regt.
Birth:
July 17, 1919
Plymouth, Devonshire, United Kingdom
Enlistment:
June 12, 1940
Brantford, Ontario
Death:
June 9, 1944
In the field, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
II. D. 7.
Additional information
Son of Walter James Dowden and Elsie Violet May Dowden, of Brantford, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Lance Sergeant Walter Roy Dowden
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Biography
Album of Honour for Brant County World War 11 1939 - 1945<P> Published in 1946 by The Brantford Kinsmen Club and submitted with their permission by Operation Picture Me -
Album Cover
Album of Honour for Brant County World War 11 1939 - 1945<P> Published in 1946 by The Brantford Kinsmen Club and submitted with their permission by Operation Picture Me -
Grave marker
This was handed down to me a few years ago, thought i would try and share with others -
Photo of Walter Roy Dowden
Lance Sargean Royal Canadian Artillery -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star June 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Lance Sergeant Walter Roy Dowden is also commemorated on the Memorial at Putot-en-Bessin, FR … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
Memorial
This monument is dedicated to the memory of the Canadian soldiers of the Royal Winnipeg Rifles and to all other Canadian combatants who played a part in the Liberation of Putot-en-Bessin on 7 June 1944. Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022.
Digital gallery of
Lance Sergeant Walter Roy Dowden
Digital gallery of
Lance Sergeant Walter Roy Dowden
Digital gallery of
Lance Sergeant Walter Roy Dowden
Digital gallery of
Lance Sergeant Walter Roy Dowden
Digital gallery of
Lance Sergeant Walter Roy Dowden
Digital gallery of
Lance Sergeant Walter Roy Dowden
Digital gallery of
Lance Sergeant Walter Roy Dowden
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 294 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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