Letters from the field etc
Item
Title
Letters from the field etc
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Identifier
8935.cpd
Subject
Cowan, John Robert
Abstract
Documents relating to the late Major John Robert Cowan (changed in 1916 to Cowan-Douglas), DSO, MC, who served with the HLI, who fought in many engagements on the front line, was wounded, taught in the Grenade School in Troon & Edinburgh and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order and the Military Cross and was mentioned in dispatches in relation to the battles of Neuve Chapelle (March 1915) and Ypres/Richebourg-l'Avoue in May 1915. Other documents relate to his family and relatives who were involved in (a) an air attack on HMS Venerable in the Channel (b) a Zeppelin attack on Edinburgh and (c) service in Greece.
Date
1914 - 1917
Date Created
1914-12-27
Temporal Coverage
1917-07-21
Source
Multiple
Medium
Mixed
Type
Multiple
number of pages
13
Contributor
Everett Sharp
Chris Hamer
The Late Major John Robert Cowan (later Cowan-Douglas)
Publisher
The Great War Archive, University of Oxford