W. Stanley Cowin
Epithet: First World War airman
Record type: First World War Biographies
Town / Village residence: Douglas
Biography: First World War Airman. 'No. 51490. Corporal. R.F.C. (Royal Flying Corps). Barrack St boy. Joined up early 1917. Oct. 34 lt T.S.P.? (Temporary Staging Post) Hut 10. Pernhill (sic - actually Ternhill) Aerodrome. Market Drayton. Salop (Shropshire). Nov. 1918 Moved 7 King St. 54 T.D.S.(Training Depot Station) A Group R.A.F. Cookhouse. Witney Aero (Aerodrome). Witney Oxon (Oxfordshire).' (Extract from handwritten notes by The Reverend Robert Daniel Kermode, Vicar of St George's Church, Douglas, about men from his parish serving in the First World War. MS 10003/5)
External sources: 2 Barrack Street