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Private JOHN WILLIAM COWING

Service Number: 116381
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Machine Gun Corps

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 28 April 1918

Age 34 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CROUY BRITISH CEMETERY, CROUY-SUR-SOMME

II. A. 2.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Husband of Elsie May Cowing, of 21, Woodhouse St., Hedon Rd., Hull.
  • Personal Inscription IN MEMORY OF MY DEAR HUSBAND FROM HIS LOVING WIFE.
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Buried or commemorated at

CROUY BRITISH CEMETERY, CROUY-SUR-SOMME
Somme France
Number of casualties: 783
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