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COWLES, Richard John
(Service number 60907)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Private

Birth

Date	31/12/1895	Place of Birth	Timaru

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Upper Waitohi; Geraldine
Occupation	Ploughman
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	Mrs M. H. COWLES (mother), Upper Waitohi, Temuka
Religion	Presbyterian
Medical Information	Height 5 feet 9½ inches. Weight 136 lbs

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	30th Reinforcements, Canterbury Infantry Regiment, C Company
Date	13 October 1917
Transport	Corinthic
Embarked From		Destination	Liverpool, Merseyside, England

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Canterbury Regiment

Military Awards

Campaigns	Western Front
Service Medals
Military Awards

Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
PoW Camps
Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date	5 March 1920	Reason	No longer physically fit for War Service on account of wounds received in action.

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

28 March 1918 wounded - gunshot wound right thigh, fractured femur. 29 March 1918 admitted to No 1 NZ Field Ambulance, then transferred to 56th Casualty Clearing Station. 30 March 1918to No 1 Canadian General Hospital. 2 June 1918 to England & admitted to No 2 NZ General Hospital at Walton-on-Thames; 19 June 1918 placed on seriously ill list, 26 June 1918 removed from seriously ill list.

Post-war Occupations

Labourer

Death

Date	4 October 1965	Age	69 years
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Timaru Cemetery
Memorial Reference	Services Section, Row 119, Plot 16
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Richard John Cowles was the son pf Francis Charles and Margaret Cowles.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [29 December 2016]; Timaru Cemetery headstone image (Timaru District Council) [29 December 2016]

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