NX7734 Posting on Death: 2/1st Australian Infantry Battalion, he died of illness (meningitis) as a Prisoner of War in Germany. He is commemorated on the Roll of Honour in Cygnet Tas, also his name is located at panel 28 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial. Son of Basil Tasman Cowen and Florence Cowen, of Cygnet, Tasmania, Australia.