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3 unusual facts about Walter Cowan


Second Battle of Heligoland Bight

1st Light Cruiser Squadron: Commodore Walter H. Cowan CB, MVO, DSO

Walter Cowan

Memorials to the 110 men of the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force killed in the Baltic action of 1919 are now in the Estonian capital Tallinn, the Latvian capital Riga and Portsmouth cathedral.

In 1898, he was appointed to the destroyer HMS Boxer in the Mediterranean, but only stayed in her for six months before being given command of the Nile gunboat HMS Sultan.



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