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Bombardier JAMES ALEXANDER GOWANS

Service Number: 73188
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Garrison Artillery

131st Heavy Bty.

Date of Death

Died 25 August 1917

Age 38 years old

Buried or commemorated at

TRACK X CEMETERY

D. 44.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of James and Janet Hume Gowans, of Wick; husband of Helen Oag Flett or Gowans, of Ackergill Shore, Wick.
  • Personal Inscription FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH HE GAVE HIS LIFE FOR OTHERS
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Buried or commemorated at

TRACK X CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 150
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