Francis Gilbert COWELL

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COWELL, Francis Gilbert

Service Number:	344
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd Tasmanian Imperial Bushmen
Born:	Bringalbert, Edenhope, Victoria, Australia, 1880
Home Town:	Elliott, Waratah/Wynyard, Tasmania
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Farmer
Died:	Enteric Fever, Deelfontein, South Africa, 25 November 1901
Cemetery:	Not yet discovered
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Boer War Memorial (Queen Victoria Square), Hobart Boer War Memorial, Launceston Boer War Memorial

Boer War Service

1 Oct 1899:	Involvement Private, 344
1 Oct 1899:	Involvement Private, 344, 2nd Tasmanian Imperial Bushmen
27 Mar 1901:	Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 344, 2nd Tasmanian Imperial Bushmen, Hobart

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Biography contributed by Elizabeth Allen

Francis Gilbert COWELL was born in Edenhope, Victoria in 1880

His parents were Arthur Alexander COWELL & Jessie Lennox HAMILTON

Francis died on 25th November, 1901 from Enteric Fever and is buried in the Deelfontein Cemetery, grave 97, South Africa

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His brother Henry Lennox COWELL served with both the New Zealand Contingent in the Boer War and the Australian forces

He was Killed in Action at Gallipoli in 1915

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