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Captain Bernard Alan Rowe - Canadian Forestry Corps
30/01/2024
First World War Army Canadian
By David Cross

United Kingdom

Captain B A Rowe
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Canadian but also an Englishman, buried with his parents in Hawley

Captain Bernard Alan Rowe, Canadian Forestry Corps, died this day on 19th Feb 1919 at the age of 30, he was wounded several times in WW1 but returned to his unit each time and was gassed sometime in early 1918. He was sent back to the UK for convalescence and was in a hospital in Reading but died from complications as a result of the gas and is buried in Hawley Saint Trinity Churchyard in a family plot of the Rowe family. He is buried with his mother and father. His father originally came from Jersey, Channel Islands. 

Research shows that he was born and lived in Surrey until 1912 when he emigrated to Halifax Nova Scotia, Canada,