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Rifleman CORNELIUS McGOWAN

Service Number: 48989
Regiment & Unit/Ship

New Zealand Rifle Brigade

1st Bn. 3rd

Date of Death

Died 02 December 1917

Age 42 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BUTTES NEW BRITISH CEMETERY (N.Z.) MEMORIAL, POLYGON WOOD

Belgium

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  • Country of Service New Zealand
  • Additional Info Son of the late Cornelius and Margaret McGowan; husband of Barbara McGowan, of 44, Earnshaw St., Invercargill. Native of Dunedin, New Zealand.
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BUTTES NEW BRITISH CEMETERY (N.Z.) MEMORIAL, POLYGON WOOD
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 378
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