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Military service
Service number:
16404
Age:
23
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment)
Division:
7th Bn.
Birth:
September 9, 1891
Victoria, British Columbia
Enlistment:
September 28, 1914
Valcartier
Death:
April 15, 1915
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 18 - 28 - 30
Additional information
Son of Francis and Julia Jessie (nee Sinclair) Bowser, of Vancouver, British Columbia. Brother of Frances Maud,
Margaret Kitson, Jannet Baxter, and Frank Copely.
Additional citations
1914-15 Star
Digital gallery of Private William James Bowser
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Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
From the Daily Colonist of April 23, 1915. Image taken from web address of https://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist57y115uvic#mode/1up -
Newspaper clipping
From the Daily Colonist of April 23, 1915. Image taken from web address of https://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist57y115uvic#mode/1up -
Newspaper clipping
In memory of the men and women of London, Ontario (and area) who went to war and did not come home. Remembered on the pages of the World War One issues of the London Advertiser. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Vancouver Daily Journal April 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Vancouver Daily Journal April 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private William James Bowser
Digital gallery of
Private William James Bowser
Digital gallery of
Private William James Bowser
Digital gallery of
Private William James Bowser
Digital gallery of
Private William James Bowser
Digital gallery of
Private William James Bowser
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 6 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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