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Military service
Service number:
448525
Age:
29
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division:
14th Bn.
Birth:
November 12, 1887
Death:
November 28, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
IV. B. 11.
Digital gallery of Private Robert Powney
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Monument
Pte. Robert Powney's name was included on the Woods Manufacturing Company Ltd. 1914 - 1918 Roll of Honour. Woods had factories in Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa, Winnipeg & Welland. Source: The Standard / Canada's Aid to the Allies and Peace Memorial. Edited by Frederick Yorston. Published by the Montreal Standard Publishing Co., Ltd., Montreal. This large Souvenir Edition magazine included Rolls of Honour for various prominent Canadian businesses. -
Coupure de presse
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me. From the Annie Boyes collection courtesy of the Simcoe County Archives. http://www.simcoe.ca/dpt/arc -
Coupure de presse
From the Montreal Star c.1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Private Robert Powney
Digital gallery of
Private Robert Powney
Digital gallery of
Private Robert Powney
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 150 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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Villers-au-Bois is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, 11 kilometres north-west of Arras. The VILLERS STATION CEMETERY is about 2 kilometres north-west of the village.
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