Dennis Cowles
Memorial: Yate - St Mary's Church Lych Gate
Regiment: Gloucestershire Regiment
Medals: British War Medal, Next of Kin Memorial Plaque 1914 - 1921, Victory Medal
Rank and number: Private 25040
Parents: George and Hannah Cowles
Home address: Station Road, Yate, Bristol
Pre-war occupation: Tailor
Date of birth: 30/08/1896
Place of birth: Yate, Bristol
Date of death: 10/02/1917
Buried/Commemorated at: Amara War Cemetery (Ref. XXIX. B 1/40.), Mesopotamia
Age: 21
Further information:
Dennis Cowles was a Tailor who lived in Station Road, Yate. He was the son of George and Hannah Cowles, his father was a coal miner. There were six children in his family, Wallace, Dorothy, Lavinia, Leonard, Phillis and Dennis
Dennis enlisted in Bristol into the 7th Service Battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment, he was Killed in Action on 10th February 1917. He is buried in the Amara War Cemetery, Mesopotamia. Dennis was just 21 years old when he died
Dennis Cowles is remembered on the Chipping Sodbury and District War Memorial Cottage Hospital board, which is now at Yate and District Heritage Centre, under Yate
By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):
Yate and District Heritage Centre, Forces War Records and CWGC