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Personal data

• Name
• Initials
• Vorname
• Land England
• Family Son of Robert David Russell Cowan and Catherine Florence Cowan, of Bushley Vicarage, Tewkesbury, England.

Military service

• Rank Lieutenant
• Regiment and unit 73rd Bn. Royal Highlanders of Canada

Death

• Wounded On the afternoon of August 19th 1916, he was with his company marching along the Ypres-Poperinghe Road, to camp, after being in billets at Ypres, when an enemy shell struck the roadway severely wounding him.
• Type of wounds Died of shell wounds legs, compound fracture left femur at n°10 CCS.
• Died at the age of 29
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery IX - B - 6

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