In Memory Of

COWELL, WILLIAM RALPH

Service Details
Date of Birth:
 -0001-11-30
Rank:
 Major
Unit:
 1st
Regiment:
 Cape Corps
Date of Death:
 1918-09-20
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, at Kh Jibeit
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 M. 38.
Cemetery:
 JERUSALEM WAR CEMETERY, Israel
Country:
 Israel
Additional Information
Decorations:
 D S O
Citations:
 LG Sup 27 July 1918 pg 8968 - "For distinguished service in connection with Military Operations in East Africa"
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