Name
Robert Cuthbert Stowell
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
20/11/1917
29
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
MONCHY BRITISH CEMETERY, MONCHY-LE-PREUX
II. A. 12.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
St Edmunds College Memorial, Old Hall Green
Biography
The following text was transcribed from the The Edmundian (1814-1819) – The contemporary magazine of St Edmund’s College:
A preliminary recording was made of Robert's (Cuthbert's?) death and then a joint obituary was published about Robert and his brother Wilfrid.
After The Edmundian had gone to press we received the news that 2nd Lieutenant Cuthbert Robert Stowell, of 3rd King's Own Lancaster Regiment, had fallen in action on November 20th. A portrait and biography will be given in the next number.
The many friends, here and elsewhere, of these two brothers will be full of sympathy for their relatives, who have sustained this double loss in the space of less than six months.
Before the war, they were both at the London County and Westminster Bank, where the name of Stowell is among the best known, both of them took their places in the Army as soon as they could be released from their civilian work.
Like so many who have found themselves at the price of their lives in the cause of their country, these two had none of those qualities which, according to earlier baseless standards, bespoke the born soldier, They were just nice quiet well-spoken boys, the friends of all and the enemies of none Always together, and it is not ever so with brothers at school, yet not secluded from the community of their fellows.
The elder, Cuthbert joined the Buffs in December 1915. After six months service with that Regiment he went to a Cadet School at Pirbright, and was thence commissioned to the King's Own Royal Lancs. Regiment, and soon after went to France.
On November 20th he was killed, by a shell-burst, at a time when the line was comparatively quiet.
The younger, Wilfrid, was not released for service until July of 1916, In 1913 he married. It was what we are pleased to call an Edmundian marriage, for Wilfrid's wife (who has, what none could ever refuse, all our sympathy), is sister to the Longstaffs, of whom we number three among our boys.
After his brother's example, Wilfrid joined the Buffs: joined later a Cadet Battalion at Kennel Park, Rhyl, and was commissioned to the 2nd Leinster Regiment. He crossed to France in October. On March 22nd of this year he was killed, instantaneously by a sniper.
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild, Di Vanderson, The Edmundian (1814-1819) – The contemporary magazine of St Edmund’s College
