Second Lieutenant Alexander Cowley

Army Number: n/a

Battalion: 8th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived at Spennymoor, County Durham. Son of William and Alice Cowley, of 10 Beaumont Terrace, Spennymoor. He was a bank clerk prior to e gaining a commission in the 8th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, on 11th January 1916. He was killed in action, on 1st July 1917, aged 26, whilst serving in the line near Cite-St. Pierre, France.

Commemorated: Loos Memorial, France. Panel 87 to 89.

Second Lieutenant Alexander Cowley is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Spennymoor War Memorial, Spennymoor, County Durham