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Pioneer W COWANS

Service Number: 193117
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

3rd Special Coy.

Date of Death

Died 22 July 1917

Age 34 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BIRR CROSS ROADS CEMETERY

III. A. 27.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Thomas and Jessie Girvan Cowans; husband of Mary Cosh Cowans, of 16, Brown St., Anderston, Glasgow.
  • Personal Inscription OUR GOD IS IN HEAVEN WHAT PLEAS'D HIM HE HATH DONE
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Buried or commemorated at

BIRR CROSS ROADS CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 834
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