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peter owen

Started by mack, May 27, 2018, 01:03:45 AM

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mack

2884 peter owen
2nd manchesters
24 caroline st,ancoats
died of TB 9-4-1920
aged 46
buried Philips park cemetery.grave ref. B.RC.361

Tim Bell

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Peter Owen enlisted 27/8/1914 and had been wounded at Ypres on 17/4/1915 & discharged due to shrapnel wound L Arm on 8/9/1916. TB was diagnosed in 1918 not as Not Due to service., but noted as aggravated in 1919.

Widow Sarah Jane. Daughter Violet.

Death Reg Manchester 8d/209.

I willl ask IFCP before ordering DC.
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Tim Bell

DC attached confirming TB as cause of death.

IFCP support the case.
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Tim Bell

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We need to see if there is a headstone on Peter Owen's grave in Phillip's Park and review the condition of any inscription.
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No Headstone found.
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Tim Bell

Peter Owen's commemoration was approved by CWGC today. He now has an entry in UKBOR, pending acceptance of his burial at Philip's Park Cemetery, where a new headstone should be erected.
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Tim Bell

Peter Owen's burial has been accepted at Phillips Park. https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/75467903/peter-owen/

CWGC is producing a new headstone.
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