Ralph Tugi Cowley

Forenames

Ralph Tugi AWMM

Surname

Cowley AWMM

Service number

WWI 24/97 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Religion

Church of Christ AWMM

Birth

11 Sept 1895 AWMM

Birth notes

Son of Alfred & Mary Harriette COWLEY of Nuku’alofa - who originated from Derbyshire, England

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 16 October 2024 - https://kanivatonga.co.nz/2018/04/tongans-remember-volunteers-from-the-islands-who-served-in-first-world-war

Next of kin

WW1 Mr Alfred Cowley (father), Nukualofa, Tonga, Pacific Islands AWMM

Relationship status

Single/WWI AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 24/97 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 28 May 1915 AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 Private AWMM New Zealand Training Unit, Trentham Regiment, 2nd Battalion, A Company AWMM

Medical notes

Died of Sickness, Cause of Death AWMM
Pleurisy and pneumonia following measles AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Rifleman AWMM
New Zealand Training Unit, Trentham Regiment, 2nd Battalion, A Company AWMM

Next of Kin: Mrs G. O. Moore, Mt Roskill, Auckland (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 1)) AWMM

Death

27 Jul 1915 AWMM
Age  16 AWMM

Cause of death

Died of Sickness AWMM

Cemetery

Waikumete Cemetery, Glen Eden, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM Non Conformist Public. Block B. Section 3. Plot 36. AWMM

Obituary

• CWGC restored headstone 2011 AWMM
• ANOTHER DEATH REPORTED. Private Ralph Cowley died in Victoria Ward, Wellington Hospital, last night, of pleurisy and pneumonia following measles. (Next of kin : A. Cowley. Nukualofa, Tonga, father). Private Cowley's sisters reside in Wellington.
  Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 16 October 2024 - Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 24, 28 July 1915, Page 8

Memorial name

Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R21898413
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/643051/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/643051
  Further Reference

References

• Liava'a, C. (2011). Koe Kau To'a Na'anau Poletu: valiant volunteers - soldiers from Tonga in the Great War. Auckland, N.Z.: Polygraphia.
• Weddell, H. (2016). Soldiers from the Pacific : the story of Pacific Island soldiers in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in World War One. Wellington, New Zealand : Defence of New Zealand Study Group.
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.