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In memory of:

Sergeant Stuart Franklin Cowan

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Korean War Monument

Citation(s);

Defence Medal
Canadian Volunteer Service Medal
War Medal 1939-1945
Canadian Korea Medal
United Nations Service Medal (Korea)

Military service

Service number: SC1700
Age: 33
Rank: Sergeant
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Army Service Corps
Division: 25th Canadian Infantry Brigade
Birth: May 2, 1919 Ottawa, Ontario
Enlistment: July 31, 1940 Ottawa, Ontario
Death: November 17, 1952

Burial/memorial information

UNITED NATIONS CEMETERY (BUSAN)
Grave reference: Plot 21, Row 9, Grave 1362
Additional information

Son of Francis William and Bertha (née Rennick) Cowan of Ottawa, Ontario. Husband of Alice Vivian (née Spear), father of Jill Vivian Alice and Barry William Clark. Brother of Muriel, Gwendolyn and Vera. Sgt Cowan attended Devonshire Intermediate Public School, Glebe Collegiate Institute and Ottawa Technical High School. He served in the Second World War. A Memorial erected by the Korean Veterans Association, National Capital Unit, commemorating the 516 Canadians who died in the Korean War was unveiled and rededicated during Veterans Week 2003 at Ottawa City Hall Headquarters on Elgin Street.

Commemorated on the Wall of Remembrance.

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Korean War (1950 – 1953)

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 15 of the Korean War Book of Remembrance.
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UNITED NATIONS CEMETERY (BUSAN) South Korea

The United Nations Cemetery is located in Tanggok, a suburb of Busan. The land for the cemetery was granted to the United Nations by the Republic of Korea as a tribute to all those who had laid down their lives in combatting aggression and in upholding peace and freedom. There are 2,267 servicemen buried in the United Nations Memorial Cemetery. Of these 1,538 were Commonwealth soldiers, including 376 Canadians.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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