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Military service
Service number:
A/49992
Age:
22
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
The Royal Canadian Regiment
Birth:
June 27, 1921
Transcoma, Manitoba
Enlistment:
August 10, 1940
Chatham, Ontario
Death:
July 24, 1943
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
A, H, 115.
Additional information
Son of John and Mildred Mabel Towart, of Chatham, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private George Nelson Towart
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Cemetery
Entrance - Agira Canadian War Cemetery - 2013 Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Grave Marker
Grave marker - Agira Canadian War Cemetery - 2013 Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Cemetery
Agira Canadian War Cemetery - 2013 Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Cemetery
Cross of Sacrifice - Agira Canadian War Cemetery - 2013 -
Entrance
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Agira Canadian War Cemetery
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Agira Canadian War Cemetery
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View of Mt. Enna
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Grave marker
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Attestation Paper
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Document
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Correspondence
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Correspondence
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Correspondence
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Photo of George Nelson Towart
From the book; …and they never came back. The story of the C. V. S (Chatham Vocational School) students who fought and died in World War 11. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me, with the permission of the author Peter N. Stanojevic. -
Grave marker
Grave marker from George Towart's grave at Agira Canadian War Cemetery.
Digital gallery of
Private George Nelson Towart
Digital gallery of
Private George Nelson Towart
Digital gallery of
Private George Nelson Towart
Digital gallery of
Private George Nelson Towart
Digital gallery of
Private George Nelson Towart
Digital gallery of
Private George Nelson Towart
Digital gallery of
Private George Nelson Towart
Digital gallery of
Private George Nelson Towart
Digital gallery of
Private George Nelson Towart
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 221 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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