Lance Corporal Claude Cowpe

Army Number: 60662

Battalion: 15th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Mansfield Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire. Son of Henry and Sarah Cowpe, of Priory Road, Mansfield Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire.; Husband of Florence May Smith (formerly Cowpe), of 40, The Bungalows, New Edlington, Doncaster. He was an ironmonger prior to enlisting at Mansfield. He died of wounds, 17th July 1918, aged 29.

Buried: Abeele Aerodrome Military Cemetery, Belgium. Plot 2. Row B. Grave 3.

Abeele Aerodrome Military Cemetery, Belgium.

Lance Corporal Claude Cowpe is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Yeoman Memorial Park War Memorial, Mansfield Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire.
Brunt’s School War Memorial, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.

Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.