COWIN, George Leslie

✟ ≠ F.5325 Air Mechanic 1st Grade, as a Carpenter and Joiner. He signed up on 2/6/1915 and served on HMS President III (his land base station) then at the Royal Naval Air Station Dunkirk. D of W on 15/2/1917 ‘caused by a bomb from hostile aircraft’, Buried at Dunkirk Town Cemetery Extension, France.  b 27/8/1894 at Liverpool, father George Cowin, b 1866 Sheffield. On George’s Navy records he is listed as living at 73A Harvey Clough Road, Norton. His mother Agnes (née Thompson) b1871, Fox House Inn, Hathersage. 1901C he is living at Stoke, Grindleford with his uncle George Arnold Turner, of Stoke Quarry.