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VC699 Charles Henry Cowley
BORN 21 February 1872
DIED 25 April 1916 AGE 44
VC Won 24-25 April 1916 AGE 44
Place VC Won River Tigris, Magasis, near Kut-el-Amara, Mesopotamia now Iraq
War/Campaign First World War 1916
Name Charles Henry Cowley No. POSTHUMOUS
VC Issue No. 699 Awards VC
Regiment Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
Later
Now
Rank VC Won Lieutenant Commander
Rank End Of Career Lieutenant Commander
Place Of Birth Baghdad, Iraq
Place Of Death River Tigris, near Kut-el-Amara, Iraq
Buried/Location Ashes Location unknown, Iraq
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Plot/Grave no.
Gazetted 2 February 1917
VC Presented 25 August 1917, King George V, Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
Named on Basra Memorial (panel 1), 40 miles north of Kuwait border, Iraq
P Victoria Cross Commemorative Paving Stone, National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire
By The Way…
Strongly believed to have been murdered by the Turks after capture
VC Held By
Not known
