James Leslie Borlace Cowan OAM (1910 - 2003)

Born 10 Jan 1910 in Angaston, South Australia

Ancestors

Died 12 Feb 2003 at age 93 in Narrabeen, New South Wales, Australia

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Biography

James was born in 1910. He is the son of Frank Cowan and Rhoda Chisholm. He passed away in 2003.

James served in the Royal Australian Air Force during the Second World War. He enlisted in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia on 23 June 1940. He was discharged with the rank of Flight Lieutenant with the Headquarters Western Area on 28 October 1944.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ Australian Government, Department of Veterans Affairs, World War Two Service, Search results for COWAN, JAMES LESLIE BORLACE (Service Number 400189), accessed 5 December 2021, https://nominal-rolls.dva.gov.au/veteran?id=1044328&c=WW2

• Birth of Cowan, James Leslie Borlace (Birth registration - District of Angaston No. 835/264 ), Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints & South Australian Genealogy and Heraldry Society & Macbeth Genealogical Services 1998, South Australian births, registrations 1842 to 1906, South Australian Genealogy & Heraldry Society, Adelaide, S. Aust, page 606
• QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY 1980 HONOURS, Commonwealth of Australia Gazette, No. S 130, 14 June 1980 page 7
• Death notice for James Leslie Borlace Cowan in the Sydney Morning Herald of 15 Feb 2003, "[search result for the above name on http://ryersonindex.org/search.php]", Accessed 3 November 2018.