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Military service
Service number:
163
Age:
31
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
Birth:
September 12, 1883
Enlistment:
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
May 8, 1915
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 10 - 26 - 28
Additional information
Son of John Titterington Bownass and Bessie Bownass, of Grove House, Windermere, England.
Digital gallery of Lance Corporal James Everett Bownass
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Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate - August 2012 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Menin Gate - August 2012 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Panel 10 of the Menin Gate - August 2012 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper Clipping
From the Toronto Star for 29 March 1915. -
Newspaper Clipping
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Newspaper Clipping
In honoured memory. -
Memorial
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Photo of JAMES EVERETT BOWNASS
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram March 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me. -
Memorial
James Everett Bownass memorial at St Martin's Church, Lake Road, Bowness-on-Windemere, Cumbria. In loving memory of JAMES EVERTT BOWNASS A.R.I.B.A. LCpl in the P.P.C.L.I. Killed in action near Ypres 8 May 1915 James's father designed and donated the window and was dedicated on Saturday, October 16, 1920. It was made and signed by Archibald Keightley
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal James Everett Bownass
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal James Everett Bownass
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal James Everett Bownass
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal James Everett Bownass
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal James Everett Bownass
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal James Everett Bownass
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal James Everett Bownass
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal James Everett Bownass
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal James Everett Bownass
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 6 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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