Colin Boyd has provided the following:
Peter was born in Sunderland on 12th October 1896, the son of Alexander and Alice Cowe. He was living at 9, Robinson Terrace, Sunderland when he enlisted in the Royal Naval Reserve on 10th September 1915. He was described as being 5 feet 3½ inches tall with fair hair and blue eyes.
On 26th June 1918 he was killed on board HMT Achilles II off Harwich when it was sunk by a mine explosion.
Peter Cowe is remembered in Sunderland on S140.048 page 156 and S140.053 and on our List of Ships’ crews
