Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Frank Fernie McGowen
In memory of:
Lieutenant Frank Fernie McGowen
April 9, 1917
Military Service
36
Army
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
16th Bn.
Additional Information
Son of Frank and Louisa Orell McGowen, of Vernon, British Columbia. Late of Bradford, Yorks, England.
Commemorated on Page 283 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.
Burial Information
ECOIVRES MILITARY CEMETERY
Pas de Calais, France
VI. E. 14.
Mont St Eloi is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, 8 kilometres north-west of Arras. The village stands on high ground overlooking the battlefields of Vimy and Souchez and the main Bethune-Arras road, and the ruined towers that rise from it were used as an observation post during the French attacks at Neuville-St Vaast and Givenchy in May 1915. Ecoivres is a hamlet lying at the foot of the hill, to the south-west and about 1.5 kilometres from Mont St Eloi on the Arras-St Pol line. The ECOIVRES MILITARY CEMETERY is on the D49 road.
Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Digital Collection
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Photo of FRANK FERNIE MCGOWEN – Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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Grave Marker – Photo courtesy of Wilf Schofield, England, 2009.
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