Lives of the First World War

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ID: 8685115

Name: Cosens, William Borroughs

Title: British Red Cross Service Records

Description: Database of volunteers who served in VAD hospitals during WW1

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URL: http://www.redcross.org.uk/About-us/Who-we-are/History-and-origin/First-World-War/Card?sname=Cosens&hosp=Colliton+House&id=49365&first=true&last=true
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ID: 8685122

Title: Page 984 Supplement to the LONDON GAZETTE, 24 JANUARY, 1916

Description: ARMY MEDICAL SERVICE. Royal Army Medical Corps. The undermentioned to be temporary Captains: — William Burrough Cosens. Dated 25th September, 1915.

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URL: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/29449/supplement/984
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ID: 8685131

Title: Permission for leave

Description: Leave granted to Cpl J E E Buckland RE on the day of his wedding

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Additional: Signature

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ID: 8685133

Reference: 1901gbc

Title: 1901 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

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UPP: GBC/1901/0014447127

Additional: Surgeon, Dorchester

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 8685142

Reference: bmd_births

Title: England & Wales births 1837-2006 Transcription

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UPP: BMD/B/1861/4/AZ/000238/146

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 8685143

Reference: bmd_deaths

Title: England & Wales deaths 1837-2007 Transcription

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UPP: BMD/D/1941/1/AZ/000261/085

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 8685146

Name: W. B. Cosens, Esq., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P

Title: Page 1490 THE LONDON GAZETTE, 2 MARCH, 1928

Description: WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION ACT, 1925. The Secretary of State for the Home Department has appointed Walter Silverwood Richardson, Esq., M.D., F.R.C.S., of Melbury, Christchurch Road, Boscombe, Bournemouth, and Fred William Sumner, Esq., M.D., F.R.C.S., of The Gables, Dorchester, to be Medical Referees under the above Act for the Districts of the Blandford, Bridport, Dorchester, Ringwood, Lymington, Poole and Bournemouth, Wareham, Weymouth, and Wimborne Minster County Courts (Circuit No. 55), in place of J. A. Hosker, Esq., M.R.C.S. (resigned) and W. B. Cosens, Esq., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (resigned). Whitehall, 28th February, 1928.

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URL: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/33362/page/1490
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ID: 8685149

Name: Cosens, W B

Title: Page 8368 THE LONDON GAZETTE, 30 DECEMBER, 1927.

Description: WOEKMEN'S COMPENSATION ACT, 1925:. The Secretary of State for the Home Department gives notice that, in consequence of the resignation of Dr. W. B. Cosens, one of the Medical Referees under the; above Act for the Districts of the Blandford, Bridport, Dorchester, Ringwood, Lymington, Poole and Bournemouth, Wareham, Weymouth, and Wimborne Minster County Courts, the appointrnent held by him is vacant.

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URL: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/33342/page/8368
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ID: 8685151

Reference: 1881gbc

Title: 1881 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

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UPP: GBC/1881/0012975460

Credit: © General Register Office

Source information

ID: 8685155

Reference: bmd_marriages

Title: England & Wales marriages 1837-2008 Transcription

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UPP: BMD/M/1895/2/AZ/000071/233

Additional: wife's name "Edith" in 1901 census

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Source information

ID: 8685162

Name: Dr. W. B. COSENS,

Title: Dorset County Hospital 100 years ago – what the papers said

Description: In June the hospital’s horse-drawn ambulance was converted into a motor-ambulance by Messrs. M. H. TILLEY & Sons’ Motor Garage in Trinity Street. Funds for the conversion had been raised by Dr. W. B. COSENS, the hospital’s honorary surgeon who was also the medical officer of the local prisoner of war camp (Western Gazette, 2 June 1916, page 2).

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ID: 8685252

Name: William Burrough COSENS L.R.C.P.Lond. M.R.C.S.Eng.

Title: Kelly's Directory of Dorsetshire, 1911

Description: The Dorset County Hospital, Dorchester, was built in 1841, in the Tudor style, and a wing added in 1866 and a new operating theatre in 1903; it has beds for 50 patients; George Gavin MORRICE M.D., M.R.C.P.Lond. hon. physician; Frederic Bazley FISHER M.R.C.S.Eng., L.R.C.P.Lond. consulting surgeon; William Ernest GOOD L.R.C.P.Edin., M.R.C.S.Eng. William Burrough COSENS L.R.C.P.Lond. M.R.C.S.Eng. & Benjamin William Nettlefold GOWRING M.D.Durh., M.R.C.S.Eng., L.R.C.P.Lond. hon. surgeons; Charles S. PRIDEAUX L.D.S.R.C.S.Eng. hon. surgeon-dentist; John Allen NOBLE M.R.C.S.Eng., L.R.C.P.Lond. house surgeon; Rev. Randolph Charles MARRIOTT M.A. chaplain; H. F. WHITLEY, auditor; Capt. D. GRANVILLE & Major William Alexander CAMPBELL, financial secretaries; Walter E. GROVES, clerk; C. T. CARTER dispenser; Miss J. E. EDWARDS, matron.

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