General Sir JOHN STEVEN COWANS
Regiment & Unit/Ship
General Staff
Date of Death
Died 16 April 1921
Age 59 years old
Buried or commemorated at
KENSAL GREEN (ST. MARY'S) ROMAN CATHOLIC CEMETERY
Terrace 130.
United Kingdom
- Secondary Unit, Regiment late Rifle Brigade
- Country of Service United Kingdom
- Awards Knight Grand Cross of the Bath, Knight Grand Cross of St. Michael and St. George, Member of the Royal Victorian Order
- Additional Info Son of John Cowans, of Carlisle; married Eva May, daughter of the Rev. John Edmund Coulson. Joined Rifle Brigade 1881; Q.M.G., War Office 1912-19.
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