R.E. Cowell
Epithet: First World War soldier
Record type: First World War Biographies
Town / Village residence: Douglas
Biography: First World War Soldier. 'No. ?. 2nd Lieut. (Lieutenant) Inns of Court. O.T.C. (Officer Training Corps). Stated to have joined in Aug. 1915. Dec. 14 c/o Mrs. Stretton 15 Ellesmere Rd. Berkhampstead Herts (Hertfordshire). 2nd Lieut 32 North. Fus. (Northumberland Fusiliers) June 1916 Nov. 1916 80. T.R.Batt. (Training Reserve Battalion) North. Fus. Spring Bank Newcastle on Tyne Nov. 1917 2nd Lieut 8 North. Fus. 31. I.B.D. (Infantry Base Depot) BEF (British Expeditionary Force) Nov. 1918 Attd. (Attached) 22 Durham L.I. (Light Infantry) Herne Bay. Lieut.' (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)
Lived at Roseleigh, Hawarden Avenue; Brunswick Road