Lives of the First World War

known 16th May 1915

Driver JAMES HERBERT COWSHALL aged 23 13141 35th Brigade Ammunition Column Royal Field Artillery 12th Div. enlisted - Eastbourne James Herbert Cowshall was born at 1 Railway Cottages near Hampden Park Station, Willingdon in the summer of 1891. He was the eldest of eleven children of James William, and Emily Cowshall née Cottingham and was baptized at the parish church 14th June 1891. The family then lived at 4 Rosebank Cottages, before moving to 1 Southdown Cottages, Lower Willingdon in 1913, where he was living when he enlisted early in the war. James embarked for France 6th October 1914. His Army service records were among those destroyed in the Blitz but would have recorded that he was not killed due to enemy action but died as the result of an accident on Wednesday 15th May 1915 just seven months after arriving in France. James is buried in Grave: 11.F.13 at Le Touret Military Cemetery Richebourg l’Avoué Pas-de-Calais France. He is commemorated on Willingdon church memorial and on the roll of honour in the Memorial Hall.

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