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Military service
Service number:
500172
Age:
22
Rank:
Sapper
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Engineers
Division:
1st Army Troops Coy.
Birth:
November 1, 1893
Enlistment:
North Vancouver, British Columbia
Death:
June 29, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
K. 25.
Additional information
Son of James and Catherine Elizabeth McLean Bower, of Red Deer, Alberta. Student of M.A.C. Canada, 1913, and of Columbian College, B.C., 1914-1915.
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Circumstances of Death Registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Border to Boys. Mircoform Sequence 12; Volume Number 131829_B016721; Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 156 Page 555 of 934 -
Newspaper Clipping
From the Calgary Herald. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Grave Marker
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Dickebushe Cemetery's Entrance
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Sapper William Arthur Bower
Digital gallery of
Sapper William Arthur Bower
Digital gallery of
Sapper William Arthur Bower
Digital gallery of
Sapper William Arthur Bower
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 57 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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