Service Details
Name:
 COWAN
Given Name:
 NEIL
Initials:
 N
Service No:
 8417
Rank:
 Private
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Regiment:
 South African Infantry
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Unit:
 4th Regt.
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Date of Death:
 1917-04-09
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Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, at Battle of Arras
Additional
Information:
Son of Neil Cowan, of Nylstroom. Born in 1896, and attended George Watson's College in 1910-14. He returned to South Africa and took up farming before joining the 4th Regt. South African Infantry
Commemoration
Country:
 France
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Locality:
 Pas de Calais
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Cemetery:
 POINT-DU-JOUR MILITARY CEMETERY, ATHIES
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Grave Reference:
 III. G. 26.

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