Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookan, R.N.R., 2403C, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =COUSINS, JAMES=, Private, No. 8490, 2nd Battn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, _s._ of William Cousins, of Lurgan, by his wife, Mary, dau. of Robert Guiney; _b._ Dollingstown, Lurgan, co. Down ..., March, 1892; educ. National School there; enlisted 1 Jan. 1906; served two years in China, and was killed in action at the Battle of the Aisne, 7 Sept. 1914; _unm._ On that evening the Inniskillings went out to take up an outpost line. Just before they reached the Ferme de la Grande Lodge they met a small force of Uhlans, which they drove off and closed up again, not suspecting that any more of the enemy were near, and while in close order two batteries opened fire at 1,200 yards. The company was immediately formed for attack, but the enemy's fire was terrific for a short time, and it was here that Lieut. Boyd and Private Cousins fell. They were buried that night in a corner of a field in which the farmhouse of La Ferme des Arceries stands. [Illustration: =James Cousins.=] =COVER, FRANK=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 41, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914. =COWAN, ANDREW GALBRAITH=, Major, 74th Punjabis, Indian Army, 2nd _s._ of the late Hugh Cowan, Advocate, Sheriff Substitute of Renfrew and Bute, by his wife, Williamina, dau. of the late Andrew Galbraith, Lord Provost of Glasgow, 1857-60; _b._ Belmont, Paisley, 26 Aug. 1876; educ. Paisley Grammar School, Trinity College, Glenalmond, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Unattached List for the Indian Army, 20 Jan. 1897. He was at first posted to the Duke of Connaught's 129th Own Baluchis, but was later transferred to the 74th Punjabis. He was promoted Lieut. 20 April, 1899, and Capt. 20 Jan. 1906, and served for one year (1911-12) on the staff of the Quartermaster-General at Simla. On 27 March, 1913, he was appointed Double Company Commander, and when the European War broke out was with his Double Company at Hong Kong. In Dec. 1914, he was attached to the 53rd Sikhs for service with the Indian Expeditionary Force, and went with them to Egypt, where he was promoted Major. At a parade of troops there on 12 April he was formally presented with the bronze medal of the Royal Humane Society which had been awarded him in recognition of gallantry in going to the assistance of a native officer of his regt. at great risk to his own life during a bathing parade in Hong Kong Harbour. He died while on active service at Suez on 1 June, 1915, and was buried there. He _m._ at Madras, Dec. 1903, Rosalind, dau. of the late Hon. Mr. Justice Lewis Moore, I.C.S., Judge of the High Court, Madras, and had two children: Hugh, _b._ 25 Oct. 1904; and Rosalind Eileen, _b._ 22 April, 1907. [Illustration: =Andrew Galbraith Cowan.=] =COWAN, ROBERT CRAIG=, 2nd Lieut., 3rd Battn. The Royal Scots, elder _s._ of Robert Craig Cowan, of Eskhill, Inveresk, co. Midlothian, by his wife, Mabel Agnes, dau. of Robert Orr, of Cowdonhall, and gdson. of Charles William Cowan, of Loganhouse; _b._ Craigiebield, Penicuik, co. Midlothian, 5 March, 1894; educ. Cargilfield, Cheltenham, and Pembroke College, Cambridge; joined the Army on the outbreak of war, being gazetted to the 3rd Battn. The Royal Scots from the O.T.C. 15 Aug. 1914. He was killed in action at La Plinche during the Battle of Ypres, 24 Oct. 1914, while attached to the 2nd Battn. The Royal Scots, and was buried at Chapigny, near Neuve Chapelle; _unm._ His commanding officer wrote: "We miss him not only as a comrade, but as a very gallant boy, who has set a noble example of courage and fearless execution of his duty." [Illustration: =Robert Craig Cowan.=] =COWARD, LESLIE GRAHAM=, Capt., 1st Battn. Duke of Cambridge's Own Middlesex Regt., yst. _s._ of the late Christopher Thomas Coward, of Limehouse, L.F.P.S.G., L.S.A., by his wife, Emily (Park Lane, Stoke Newington), dau. of James Bennett; _b._ Limehouse, 1 Feb. 1890; educ. Owen's School, Islington, and University of London (matriculated 1906). His health having broken down while he was reading for the Intermediate B.A., he secured a clerkship under the London County Council. On the outbreak of war he volunteered for foreign service, and having been a member of the London University O.T.C., was given a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 5th Special Reserve Battn. of the Middlesex Regt. 15 Aug. 1914. Transferred later to the 1st Battn., he was promoted Lieut. 1 Jan. 1915, and Capt. 3 April, 1915. He was killed in action at Flanders, 25 Sept. 1915; _unm._ Writing to his mother, Col. F. Rowley said he "was killed yesterday while gallantly leading his platoon to storm German trenches. His death was instantaneous, and he could not have suffered any pain. I have had the privilege of knowing him for some months, and as his colonel had formed a very high opinion of him. He was very keen and devoted to his duty, and had done a lot of most excellent work while he was with the regt." The regt. lost very heavily on this occasion, 12 officers being killed, 1 missing and 5 wounded. He was buried with four others in a little churchyard at Cambrin. [Illustration: =Leslie Graham Coward.=] =COWELL, CLAUDE=, Leading Seaman, 223743 (Devon.), H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =COWLEY, JAMES=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3874), 190567, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 25 Oct. 1914; _m._ =COWLING, WALTER SIDNEY=, Private, No. 16990, 7th Battn. (1st British Columbia Regt.) Canadian Expeditionary Force, 3rd _s._ of the late William Frederick Cowling, by his wife, Sarah Maria (64, St. Anne's Road, Tottenham, London, N.), dau. of Benjamin Charles Osborne; _b._ Hackney, 8 Sept. 1891; educ. Stamford Hill Board School; went to Canada 22 Feb. 1910, and settled at Revelstoke, B.C., and worked as locomotive fireman on the freight trains that went up the Rockies; enlisted in Aug. 1914, after the declaration of war, and was killed in action at Messines, 27 Sept. 1915, by shell fire. He was buried in Ploegsteert Woods. [Illustration: =Walter Sidney Cowling.=] =COWNIE, JOHN BURNETT=, Coy. Q.M. Sergt., No. 7711, 2nd Battn. Welsh Regt., _s._ of Francis Sonley Cownie, of Edinburgh, S.S.C.; _b._ Edinburgh, 24 Sept. 1886; educ. Edinburgh; joined the Army, 25 Nov. 1902, and was killed in action near Gheluvelt, Belgium, 29 Oct. 1914. 2nd Lieut. Hewett wrote: "He was with my platoon when he was killed.... He was a splendid fellow, as plucky as you make them, and a very fine leader and organiser. He would have made his mark and name in this war had he lived. He was also a first-class sniper. He met his death in the trench on my left flank, trying to locate a machine gun. He was in front of the others, and it was owing to this that we could not get his body in, though a Sergt. and myself tried. However, about 30 yards from it we got caught by machine gun fire and |