Letters from the field etc (10)

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Title	Letters from the field etc (10)
Subject	Cowan, John Robert
Notes	Documents relating to the late Major John Robert Cowan (changed in 1916 to Cowan-Douglas), DSO, MC, who served with the HLI, who fought in many engagements on the front line, was wounded, taught in the Grenade School in Troon & Edinburgh and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order and the Military Cross and was mentioned in dispatches in relation to the battles of Neuve Chapelle (March 1915) and Ypres/Richebourg-l'Avoue in May 1915. Other documents relate to his family and relatives who were involved in (a) an air attack on HMS Venerable in the Channel (b) a Zeppelin attack on Edinburgh and (c) service in Greece.
Item date	1914 - 1917
Creation place	Givenchy, HMS Venerable , Neuve Chapelle, Ypres, Richebourg-l'Avoue, Piraeus, Zeppelin raid on Edinburgh.
Item source	Multiple
Item medium	Mixed
Content	Multiple
Page number	10
Total number of pages	13
Cataloguer	Everett Sharp
Filename	GWA_1804_I.pdf
Copyright	The Great War Archive, University of Oxford / Primary Contributor
Digital repository	The Great War Archive, University of Oxford
Contributor name	Chris Hamer
Contributed on the behalf of	The Late Major John Robert Cowan (later Cowan-Douglas)

“Letters from the field etc,” First World War Poetry Digital Archive, accessed May 17, 2024, http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/items/show/5535.

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Title	Letters from the field etc
Subject	Cowan, John Robert
Notes	Documents relating to the late Major John Robert Cowan (changed in 1916 to Cowan-Douglas), DSO, MC, who served with the HLI, who fought in many engagements on the front line, was wounded, taught in the Grenade School in Troon & Edinburgh and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order and the Military Cross and was mentioned in dispatches in relation to the battles of Neuve Chapelle (March 1915) and Ypres/Richebourg-l'Avoue in May 1915. Other documents relate to his family and relatives who were involved in (a) an air attack on HMS Venerable in the Channel (b) a Zeppelin attack on Edinburgh and (c) service in Greece.
Item date	1914 - 1917
Creation place	Givenchy, HMS Venerable , Neuve Chapelle, Ypres, Richebourg-l'Avoue, Piraeus, Zeppelin raid on Edinburgh.
Item source	Multiple
Item medium	Mixed
Content	Multiple
Total number of pages	13
Cataloguer	Everett Sharp
Copyright	The Great War Archive, University of Oxford / Primary Contributor
Digital repository	The Great War Archive, University of Oxford
Contributor name	Chris Hamer
Contributed on the behalf of	The Late Major John Robert Cowan (later Cowan-Douglas)

“Letters from the field etc,” First World War Poetry Digital Archive, accessed May 17, 2024, http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/items/show/5535.