The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private R E Cowles


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Private Reginald Eames COWLES, G/23011, 6th  Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, died of wounds, Flanders France, 3rd July 1918, age 35. 

1883 December Quarter, born Portsea, Portsmouth, Hampshire, son of George & Emily Cowles.

26th December 1910, Brighton Sussex, married Ethel Maud Snashall, (spinster), of 21, Morris Road, Lewes, Sussex.

Children - Phyllis May Cowles, born 21st September 1911, Lewes, Sussex; Cyril George Cowles, born 29th April 1914, Lewes, Sussex.


1911 Census - 45 High Street, Cliffe, Lewes, Sussex - Reginald Eames Cowles, head, age 27, married, gents clothing assistant, Tailors & Outfitters, born Portsmouth, Hampshire; Ethel Maud Cowles, wife, age 22, married under one year, born Haywards Heath, Sussex.


Enlisted Lewes, Sussex, age 31 years & 340 days, height 5ft 7 inches, weight 125lbs.  Resided 21, Morris Road, Lewes, Sussex.

Home 9th December 1915 to 13th October 1916; BEF 14th October 1916 to 3rd July 1918.

9th December 1915, enlisted; 10th December 1915, to Army Reserve; 2nd June 1916, mobilized; 3rd June 1916, posted 14 Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment, Service No.6097; 15th August 1916, Aldershot Hospital, Army spectacles to be provided; 1st September 1916, transferred 97th Training Reserve, Service NO.TR/10/33097?; 14th October 1916, transferred 6th Battalion,  Royal West Kent Regiment; 14th October 1916, embarked / disembarked; 7th January 1917, joined Battalion, "C" Company; 1st February 1917, attached 12th Div? Company; 7th June 1917, rejoined Battalion; 6th November 1917, transferred to "A" Company; 21st December 1917 to 4th January 1918, leave to England; 1st July 1918, wounded in action; 3rd July 1918, 37 Field Ambulance, died of wounds.

20th January 1919, pension of 25/5 a week granted to widow & two children.

8th April 1920, Statement of Relatives - Widow, Ethel Maud, 21, Morris Road, Lewes; Children - Phyllis May, 21, Morris Road, Lewes; Cyril George, 21, Morris Road, Lewes; Father George Cowles, 42 Nelson Avenue, North End, Portsmouth; Mother, Emily Cowles, 42 Nelson Avenue, North End, Portsmouth; Brothers - Ernest Leopold Cowles, age 53, 10 King Street, Gravesend; Hedley George Sidney Cowles, age 50, 48 Shakespeare Avenue, Harlesden, NW; Arthur Thomas Cowles, age 44, 83 Bisborough Road, Harrow on the Hill; Harold Edgar Cowles, age 31, 5 Dean Road, Godalming, Surrey; Sisters - Eveline Inery? Cowles, age 52, 42 Nelson Avenue, North End, Portsmouth; Agnes Hebe Ellen Mitchell, age 48, Netley, Hampshire; Ethel Edith Mary Torevell?, age 46, Lucas Stores, High Street, Bramber?, Sussex; Ella Gertrude Emily Oakley, age 42, 164 Somers? Road, Southsea, Hampshire; Marion Augusta Burt, age 38, 63 Vale Road, Hermitage Road, Finsbury Park, N4?

Buried at Varennes Military Cemetery, III. H. 3., Somme, France.

NOTE: Regimental History, shows initals as R. E. & Soldiers Died in the Great War shows names as Reginald Eames; CWGC website shows names as Reginald James.


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