A Normandy casualty group of five to Corporal Daniel Lewis Cowley, 1st Royal Tank Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps, who having seen service in Africa, and landed in France on D-Day, was killed in action on 24th August 1944
Five: 1939-45 Star; Africa Star clasp 8th Army; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals.
Condition. Extremely Fine.
Contained in the named OHMS registered box of transmission addressed to Mrs. E. W. Cowley, 16 Hamilton Road, Bridlington, E. Yorks, and complete with the named Army Council awards granted slip.
Corporal Daniel Louis Cowley is interred in the Condre-Sur-Risle Churchyard, Eure, France. He shares a joint grave with Sergeant Edward Newland Dicker of the 1st Battalion, Rifle Brigade who was killed in action on 26th August 1944. They are the only two British soldiers in this churchyard.
His death was announced in the Herald of Wales, of September 23, 1944:
Cockett man killed in France.
Mr. and Mrs. Cowley of Steynton, Stepney Road, Cockett, have received news that their elder son, Corporal Daniel Lewis Cowley, has been killed in action in France. He was 27, and went through the North African campaign. Returning home after being five years abroad, he then went to France on D-Day with the 1st Royal Tank Regiment. He had been in the Army for nine years, formerly in the Royal Artillery, before which he was in the employ of Messrs. Rees and Kirby.
Corporal Cowley leaves a widow in Yorkshire. He was married last March.
