Photo: Geordie at War Project
T.H. Cowell
Northumberland Fusiliers
28th June 1918 age 28
Peace, perfect peace
Brenda McMahon has submitted the following:
Thomas Henry was born at Gateshead on 2 February 1890 and subsequently baptised 5 March of the same year. His parents were John Ralph and Jane (nee Kennedy) Cowell. He was their youngest son. In fact, the couple had 14 children but only 8 lived. John was a bricklayer in the chemical works.
Thomas Henry enlisted in Newcastle and died at home of pneumonia in 1918.
His father added the following words to his headstone: Peace, perfect peace
Thomas Henry Cowell is remembered at Gateshead on G39.025 G39.048 and G39.091