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Private WILLIAM VICTOR COWARD

Service Number: 769464
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Canadian Machine Gun Corps

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 28 August 1918

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

WANCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY

VI. D. 7.

France

Headstone

Photographer: Bill Caudwell

  • Country of Service Canadian
  • Additional Info Son of James Victor and Emily Coward, of Kleinburg, Ontario.
  • Personal Inscription UNTIL THE DAY BREAKS AND THE SHADOWS FLEE AWAY
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Buried or commemorated at

WANCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 1951
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