Canadian Virtual War Memorial
John Stewart Cowan
In memory of:
Private John Stewart Cowan
November 14, 1917
Military Service
523890
25
Army
Canadian Army Medical Corps
10th Field Coy.
Additional Information
Son of Alex Cowan, of Manitowaning, Ontario.
Commemorated on Page 221 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.
Burial Information
MENIN GATE (YPRES) MEMORIAL
Belgium
Panel 32
The Menin Gate Memorial is situated at the eastern side of the town of Ypres (now Ieper) in the Province of West Flanders, on the road to Menin and Courtrai. It bears the names of 55,000 men who were lost without trace during the defence of the Ypres Salient in the First World War. Designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield and erected by the Imperial (now Commonwealth) War Graves Commission, it consists of a Hall of Memory", 36.6 metres long by 20.1 metres wide. In the centre are broad staircases leading to the ramparts which overlook the moat, and to pillared loggias which run the whole length of the structure. On the inner walls of the Hall, on the side of the staircases and on the walls of the loggias, panels of Portland stone bear the names of the dead, inscribed by regiment and corps. Carved in stone above the central arch are the words:
TO THE ARMIES OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE WHO STOOD HERE FROM 1914 TO 1918 AND TO THOSE OF THEIR DEAD WHO HAVE NO KNOWN GRAVE.
Over the two staircases leading from the main Hall is the inscription:
HERE ARE RECORDED NAMES OF OFFICERS AND MEN WHO FELL IN YPRES SALIENT BUT TO WHOM THE FORTUNE OF WAR DENIED THE KNOWN AND HONOURED BURIAL GIVEN TO THEIR COMRADES IN DEATH.
The dead are remembered to this day in a simple ceremony that takes place every evening at 8:00 p.m. All traffic through the gateway in either direction is halted, and two buglers (on special occasions four) move to the centre of the Hall and sound the Last Post. Two silver trumpets for use in the ceremony are a gift to the Ypres Last Post Committee by an officer of the Royal Canadian Artillery, who served with the 10th Battery, of St. Catharines, Ontario, in Ypres in April 1915."
Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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Inscription on Menin Gate – Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Photo of Menin Gate – Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Memorial – Owen Sound Collegiate Institute Memorial Tablet. Image courtesy of Owen Sound Collegiate (OSCVI) Digital Soldier Library. -
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Newspaper clipping – From the Owen Sound Sun November 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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Newspaper clipping – Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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War Memorial – Listing of those University of Saskatchewan alumni on the War Memorial Gates who gave their lives in the Great War. These are they who went forth from this University to the Great War 1914-1918 and gave their lives that we might live in freedom. Hugh Carter Allingham, William Mansell Codling, Renwick William Anderson, John Stewart Cowan, Reginald John Bateman , James Douglas Cumming, Charles McVicar Boyne, John Kenneth Dawson, Harold John Blair M.C., Reginald James Dillan, Charles Bremner, William Drysdale, James Brydon, Henry Egar, Frederick Burd, Lorne Burton Elliott, Thomas Caldwell, Wilfred John Evans, Gordon Mortimer Channell, John Pisher, Ernest R. Gilmer, Perry Dennington Kisbey, James Donald Graham M.M., Reginald A. Lovers M.M. Robert Carlion Grant, Shuli Gudbrandur Lindal, Arthur Gordon Gruchy, Arthur Stephen K. Lloyd, Cyril N. Harrington, Clifford McConnell, James Gordon Hill, Robert Peveral McClordick, Lawrence Homer, Louis James McCuien, Grenville Carson Hopkins, Michael Allan McMillan, Willis George Hunt, J. Ross McPherson D.S.O., William Yrides Hunter, Auned Yuil Mathews, Franklin Mager Keffer, Enoch Andrew Mitchell, James Shirley Heathcote, John James Moore, Ronald Charles Spence, Fred Nesbitt, Arthur George Slarkings, Joseph Lees Nicholls, George Swift, Angus Nicholson, Robert Sifton Turriff, George Irving Paterson, Wellesley Wesley-Long, Arthur Edward Parlett, Edward West, Elwyn Robert Reid, Frank West, Thomas Ritchie, Walter Ray Whittingham, Robert Rensay, Paul P Wiklun, Roy E. Shuttleworth M.M., Geoffrey Wilson, Hugh A. Silcox and Wilfrid Grant Wilson
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