10.5287/BODLEIAN298H.2
First World War Poetry Digital Archive, University Of Oxford
University Of Oxford
First World War Poetry Digital Archive
Official photograph card of William Owen's grave
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
2011
Dataset
WdUzzgyu90327
1917-09-01/1918-12-31
2011-12-05 12:31:16.892813
2011
gwa-7108
Photograph
Director of Graves Registration and Enquiries card, with photograph.
Private 3134 William William Owen, 1st Bn. Welsh Guards, was killed in action 20th September 1917, aged 41. The husband of Asneth Owen, of Pembroke House, Penygroes, Carnarvonshire, he is buried in Canada Farm Cemetery. The 1st Bn., part of the Guards Division, was taking part in the Battle of the Menin Road, third phase of the Third Battle of Ypres.