Tom Nowell enlisted in November 1915 at Montreal, joining the Canadian Grenadier Guards before later transferring to the 87th Battalion. As a married man of age forty, he was considerably older than the typical recruit. The private was killed in action during the Battle of the Ancre on October 21, 1916, the final phase of the first battle of the Somme. He left behind a widow, Lucy Nowell. His body was never found.

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