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  • COWAN
  • AWR
  • ALAN WILLIAM RUSSEL
  • England
  • Son of Robert David Russell Cowan and Catherine Florence Cowan, of Bushley Vicarage, Tewkesbury, England.

Military service

  • Lieutenant
  • 73rd Bn. Royal Highlanders of Canada

Death

  • 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.
  • Died of shell wounds legs, compound fracture left femur at n°10 CCS.
  • 20 August 1916
  • 29
  • IX - B - 6

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