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Corporal ROBERT DOWTHWAITE

Service Number: 3100
Regiment & Unit/Ship

South African Infantry

2nd Regt.

Date of Death

Died 12 April 1917

Age 36 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BROWN'S COPSE CEMETERY, ROEUX

I. A. 2.

France

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  • Country of Service South African
  • Awards Military Medal
  • Additional Info Son of Hannah Dowthwaite, of Eagle Hill, Olds, Alberta, Canada, and the late Joseph Dowthwaite.
  • Personal Inscription "UNTIL THE DAY BREAK AND THE SHADOWS FLEE AWAY" SONG OF SOLOMON 4.6
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Buried or commemorated at

BROWN'S COPSE CEMETERY, ROEUX
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 2073
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