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Military service
Age:
29
Rank:
Major
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Alberta Regiment)
Division:
31st Battalion
Birth:
December 10, 1887
Hamilton, Ontario
Enlistment:
July 3, 1915
Edmonton, Alberta
Death:
November 6, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 24 - 28 - 30
Additional information
Son of Alfred and Elizabeth Powis, of Hamilton; husband of Mona Murray Powis, of Hamilton, Ontario. He received a B.Sc. at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec.
Digital gallery of Major Gordon Douglas Powis
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Photo of Gordon Douglas Powis
From the "McGill Honour Roll, 1914-1918". McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, 1926. -
Memorial Plaque
Memorial plaque dedicated to Gordon Douglas Powis. Church of the Ascension, Hamilton, Ontario. -
Memorial Tablets
World War One and Two Bronze Memorial Tablets, Church of the Ascension (Anglican, 1850), Hamilton, Ontario. Inscribed: "To the Glory of God and in proud and grateful remembrance of the following men of the Church of the Ascension who fell on Active Service in the War against Germany and her Allies. -
World War One Memorial Tablet
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Church of the Ascension
Church of the Ascension, Hamilton, Ontario, clockwise from top right: World War One Memorial (1927); an image of the church circa 1910; present church interior; and Hamilton's XIIIth Regimental crest in stained glass. -
Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
From the Hamilton Spectator 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Hamilton Spectator 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Photo of Gordon Douglas Powis
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Major Gordon Douglas Powis
Digital gallery of
Major Gordon Douglas Powis
Digital gallery of
Major Gordon Douglas Powis
Digital gallery of
Major Gordon Douglas Powis
Digital gallery of
Major Gordon Douglas Powis
Digital gallery of
Major Gordon Douglas Powis
Digital gallery of
Major Gordon Douglas Powis
Digital gallery of
Major Gordon Douglas Powis
Digital gallery of
Major Gordon Douglas Powis
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 311 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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