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Military service
Service number:
712811
Age:
21
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Nova Scotia Regiment)
Division:
25th Bn.
Birth:
July 27, 1897
Augustine Cove, Prince Edward Island
Enlistment:
March 4, 1916
Summerside, Prince Edward Island
Death:
September 7, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
III. B. 3.
Additional information
Son of Edward Gordon and Emma Wood Howatt.
Digital gallery of Private John Goodwill Howatt
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Grave marker
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Memorial
[front/devant] ARTHUR C. ROBINSON 26TH BATT., 2ND CAN. DIVISION, BORN 1897, KILLED IN ACTION, MAR. 27, 1916 VINCENT E. CARR SIFTON BATT., 1ST CAN. MOTOR MACHINE GUN BRIGADE, BORN 1895, KILLED IN ACTION OCT. 30, 1917 JOHN G. HOWATT 105TH BATT., BORN 1897, DIED OF WOUNDS SEPT. 7, 1918 HENRY W. ROBINSON 105TH BATT., BORN 1891, DIED AT VALCARTIER, JUNE 27, 1916 ERECTED BY THE PEOPLE OF AUGUSTINE COVE IN LOVING MEMORY OF OUR BRAVE BOYS KILLED IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 1918 http://www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-dhp/nic-inm/sm-rm/mdsr-rdr-eng.asp?PID=2508 -
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Private John Goodwill Howatt
Digital gallery of
Private John Goodwill Howatt
Digital gallery of
Private John Goodwill Howatt
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 432 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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