J. Robert F. Cowell
Epithet: First World War sailor
Record type: First World War Biographies
Town / Village residence: Douglas
Biography: First World War Sailor. 'No. 4733. Seaman. R.N.R. (Royal Naval Reserve) H.M.S. Jupiter. A member of Barrack St. Class. & Club. reported by the men who did not know address or details. Home May 22 Called but did not see him. Ship been at Arkhangel. In dock at Birkenhead & in a bad state. Returning to Barracks. Called up June 1. Been opening passage through ice for store ships. H.M.S.Caronia Nov 29 Letter Spring 1916. Nov. 1916 H.M.T. (His Majesty's Transport) Hartland 1267 G.P.O.(General Post Office) London Nov. 1917 Moved to 19 Windsor Rd C.S.(Cable Ship) Sentinel G.P.O. London Nov. 1918. C.S. Sentinel No. c/o Eastern Telegraph Co. (Company) Malta Had been torpedoed Mar.26. 1918 Died of pneumonia after influenza at Marseilles. (57 Gen. Hosp) March 26. 1919.' (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: 5 Harris Terrace