Rowlinson, John Joseph: Service no. 675133

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Source: Duty ND page 303. Murdered by Germans? Died November 10, 1918. Last member of the 18th Battalion to die in action according to Duty Nobly Done.

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Family Search: When Private John Joseph Rowlinson was born on 2 November 1893, in Newton, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Joseph Rowlinson, was 20 and his mother, Marth Ann Hall, was 20. He married Lilley May Demaray on 7 April 1916, in Ingersoll, Oxford, Ontario, Canada. He immigrated to Canada in 1913 and lived in Ingersoll, Oxford, Ontario, Canada in 1916. He registered for military service in 1916. In 1916, at the age of 23, his occupation is listed as shoemaker in Ingersoll, Oxford, Ontario, Canada. He died on 10 November 1918, in Ciply, Mons, Hainaut, Belgium, at the age of 25, and was buried in Mons, Hainaut, Belgium.

Report of Rowlinson’s death from “The Ingersoll Weekly Chronicle and Canadian Dairyman”, November 29, 1918, page 4.
London Free Press. May 26, 1919. Page 3.
“Killed in Action” During an attack from CIPLY to HYON, South of Mons, he was wounded in the leg by an enemy sniper when ahead of the advancing troops. Later when the troops advanced he was found dead with a gash in his throat.

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