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NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE

Cowen, E.G., Pte., 1917
In Artillery Wood Cemetery is the Commonwealth War Grave of 202751 Private Ernest Gordon Cowen, serving with the Northumberland Fusiliers, who died 31/10/1917.

Ernest was born in Newcastle, the son of Mr & Mrs John Cowen of 258 Westgate Road, Newcastle.

He enlisted at Newcastle upon Tyne, initially with 4th (Reserve) Battalion before his transfer to the 1st/6th Battalion.

Acknowledgments: Ron Carson

Ernest Gordon Cowen is remembered in Newcastle on NUT070 and NUT126


The CWGC entry for Private Cowen

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