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Express and Advertiser, May 15, 1915. pg. 4
NELSONIAN DIES IN GERMANY.
News has been received at Nelson of the death of Pte. H. Cowgill, of the 1st East Lancashire Regiment and who before the war resided at 86, Larch-street. Cowgill was wounded in the retreat from Mons in the early stages of the war. The intimation of his death was conveyed in a message from Pte. King, a Nelson soldier who formerly resided at 133, Southfield-street, and who is interned at Doeberitz. Cowgill was also a prisoner of war.

http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_det ... lty=324045

I wonder if this soldier was related to Walton Cowgill? http://www.briercliffesociety.co.uk/Sol ... owgill.htm

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I did wonder that myself.

COWGILL, Harold
1st East Lancashire Regt.
Pte. 9856
Medal: Victory, British, 1914 Star
Date of Entry therein: 22 August 1914
Correspondence: Mrs. Bernard applies for 1914 star in respect of her late husband Pte. H. Cowgill – 8.4.1919
Address: 10 Parles Street, Godalming, Surrey

1901 Census - RG13; Piece: 3881; Folio: 82; Page: 30
86 Larch street, Nelson
James Cowgill, Head, Mar, 37yrs, Cotton Weaver, Worker, b. Nelson
Eda Cowgill, Wife, 36yrs, b. Nelson
Florence Cowgill, Daughter, 13yrs, Cotton Weaver, b. Nelson
Harold Cowgill, Son, 11yrs, b. Nelson
Albert Cowgill, Son, 9yrs, b. Nelson
Wilfred Cowgill, Son, 8yrs, b. Nelson
Horace Cowgill, Son, 5yrs, b. Nelson
Arthur Cowgill, Son, 4yrs, b. Nelson
James W. Cowgill, Son, 2yrs, b. Nelson

Walton Cowgill would have been born about 1866

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