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Military service
Service number:
474247
Age:
30
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Saskatchewan Regiment)
Division:
46th Bn.
Birth:
August 14, 1886
Langtoft, Yorkshire, England
Enlistment:
April 1, 1916
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Death:
November 18, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
III. C. 40.
Additional information
Son of James and Ruth Dowson; husband of Elsie Hewer (formerly Dowson), of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
Digital gallery of Lance Corporal Charles Dowson
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Gravemarker
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War Memorial
The War memorial in Langtoft, East Riding of Yorkshire. -
Photo of Charles Dowson
Charles Dowson in uniform. -
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 745 of 1076. He was buried 1 mile North East of Courcelette, 4 ¼ miles South West of Bapaume. After the Armistice, his body was exhumed and buried in ADANAC MILITARY CEMETERY.
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Charles Dowson
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Charles Dowson
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Charles Dowson
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Charles Dowson
ADANAC MILITARY CEMETERY Somme, France
Miraumont is a village about 14.5 kilometres north-north-east of Albert and the Cemetery is some 3 kilometres south of the village on the east side of the road to Courcelette (D107). The ADANAC MILITARY CEMETERY is signposted in the centre of Miraumont.
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