Bertie Shiel Cowie

Forenames

Bertie Shiel AWMM

Surname

Cowie AWMM

Service number

WWI 40889 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Next of kin

Mrs M. Cowie (mother), care of J.G. Laurenson, 109 Highgate, Dunedin, New Zealand AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 40889 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM Reporter/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 14 Mar 1917-21 May 1917 AWMM
HMNZT 79 AWMM Vessel was Ruapehu AWMM Sergeant AWMM 23rd Reinforcements Otago Infantry Regiment, D Company AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Medical notes

Died of wounds, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Private AWMM
Otago Infantry Regiment, 3rd Battalion AWMM

Bertie Cowie was the son of Margery and the late Peter Cowie, of Dunedin, New Zealand. AWMM

Death

• 5 Oct 1917 AWMM
  Age  23 AWMM
• 5 Oct 1917 Allan Steel Cemetery Project
  Age  23 AWMM

Cause of death

Died of wounds AWMM

Cemetery

• Brandhoek New Military Cemetery No 3, Vlamertinge, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium AWMM I. K. 9. AWMM
• Northern Cemetery, Dunedin City Council AWMM Block 181, Plot 7 AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R21898207
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/139894/-
  Further Reference
• CWGC Archives, CWGC Archives - 117 - Private ANDREW GRAY COWIE - BAPAUME AUSTRALIAN CEMETERY and Private BERTIE SHIEL COWIE - BRANDHOEK NEW MILITARY CEMETERY No.3 - Otago Regiment, N.Z.E.F.
  http://archive.cwgc.org/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=CWGC%2f8%2f1%2f4%2f1%2f2%2f117
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/139894
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference

References

• This record was partially compiled from data kindly provided by Allan Steel Cemetery Project (2020)
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1918). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume III. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  57: 13
• Beattie, P.J. & Pomeroy, M. (2013-2020). Onward : portraits of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (vols 1-5). Auckland, New Zealand: Fair Dinkum Publications
  Vol. 1: Includes portrait
• Byrne, A. E. Official History of the Otago Regiment, NZEF in the Great War, 1914–1918. Dunedin: J. Wilkie, 1921.
• HMNZT 109 "T.S.S. Tofua" - New Zealand's black watch, "the gallant forty-twa" : the journal of the Forty-Second New Zealand Rfts. on H.M.N.Z.T. 109 "T.S.S. Tofua" -- On board ship : 42 Reinforcements Printed by Cape Times Ltd. : [1918]
• HMNZT 79 - Our grins : just a souvenir of the 23rds -- [Capetown?] : [Magazine Committee] : [1917]