Service Details
Name:
 COWELL
Given Name:
 WILLIAM RALPH
Initials:
 W R
Rank:
 Major
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Regiment:
 Cape Corps
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Unit:
 1st
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Date of Death:
 1918-09-20
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Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, at Kh Jibeit
Decorations:
 D S O
Citations:
 LG Sup 27 July 1918 pg 8968 - "For distinguished service in connection with Military Operations in East Africa"
Additional
Information:
Had fourteen months service with Queensland Imperial Bushmen prior to Anglo-Boer war; served twenty months (1901-1902) with Queensland Imperial Bushmen during Anglo-Boer war; was six months at Army HQ, Pretoria, in 1902; final rank, Lieutenant, Queen's and King's Medal (three clasps); was on Anglo-Germany Boundary Commission in East Africa, 1904-5; served in Zululand Rebellion, 1906. joined 2nd M.R. (Natal Carbineers) in 1914, rank Lieutenant; and saw service in during Rebellion and in GSWA to July 1915; gazetted to 1st Cape Corps, 6/10/1915, rank Captain. Commemoration stone in Sunderland (Bishopwearmouth) Cemetery
Commemoration
Country:
 Israel
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Cemetery:
 JERUSALEM WAR CEMETERY, Israel
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Grave Reference:
 M. 38.

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