ROWE, Wilbur John

War
1st World War
Date of Birth
Date Attested
Attested at
Quill Lake, Saskatchewan
Original Unit
28th Battalion - Saskatchewan
Regimental Number
267138
Rank
Private
Date of Death
Age at Death
32 years
Cemetery
Brussels Town Cemetery - Vlaams Brabant - Belgium
Cenotaph
Exeter Cenotaph
Biographical Summary

DIVISIONAL UNIT:        2nd Canadian Infantry Division
                                             6th Infantry Brigade
                                             28th Battalion  -  Saskatchewan
                                             Canadian Infantry Corps
SERVICE NO:                   267138
RESIDENCE:                    Quill Lake - Saskatchewan
DATE OF BIRTH:            January 24, 1887
                                             Exeter – Townships of Hay / Stephen / Usborne Townships
                                                           County of Huron - Ontario
DATE OF DEATH:           January 25, 1919                  32 years
CEMETERY:                     Brussels Town Cemetery - Brussels
                                             Evere – Vlaams-Brabant – Belgium
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PARENTS:                         Mr. & Mrs. John Rowe – Exeter – Ontario
FRIEND:                            Miss Helan Govan – Quill Lake - Saskatchewan
Occupation:                        Farmer                                  Religion:     Methodist
Enlistment:                         February 3, 1916 – Quill Lake – Saskatchewan
Enlistment Age:                 29 years

John was a farmer in Saskatchewan and had owned his own farm prior to his enlistment. Private Rowe departed Canada and arrived in Liverpool on April 29, 1917.
He was taken on strength by the 15th Canadian Reserve Battalion at Bramshott and from there transferred to the 
28th Battalion and went to France to join his unit in the field on August 27, 1917.
From the autumn of 1917 until the end of the war he was involved in the battalion battles and he survived this ordeal.
He was admitted already sick with pyrexia of unknown origin to No. 4 Canadian Field Ambulance on 
January 1, 1919.    
Private Rowe lost his life to pneumonia following his admittance to No. 2 Canadian Casualty Clearing Station – Bonn, Germany on January 17th, 1919. Despite all the methods of the time to treat this illness including oxygen for the last 24 hours he died from this illness on January 25, 1919.