Robert Bowes Cockburn
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Robert Bowes Cockburn was baptised on 20th April 1890 at the parish church at Eastwood he was the son of Dr Robert Cockburn a veterinary surgeon and Annie Elizabeth Cockburn née Bowes of Eastwood Nottinghamshire. Robert Cockburn was born in 1853 at Berwick, Scotland, Annie Elizabeth Bowes was born in 1863 at Langley Mill they were married on 17th July 1888 at the parish church at Aldecar, they went on to have 4 children, sadly one died in infancy or early childhood, their 2 other surviving children were Hector Stewart b1894 and Eileen Annie b1904. In the 1911 census the family were living at The Hollies, Eastwood, Robert is 58 yrs and a veterinary surgeon he is living with his wife Annie Elizabeth 48 yrs and their their children including Robert Bowes 21 yrs a veterinary student. He married Elsie Scrace very shortly before his death in 1918 their marriage was recorded in the Basford registration district.
Captain Robert Bowes Cockburn, he served in Salonika and was attached to the 130th brigade Royal Field Artillery and died from pneumonia on 27th September 1918. He is buried at Bralo British Cemetery, Greece.
Nottingham Evening Post obituary (abridged) 15 October 1918: COCKBURN on Spetember 27th at Salonika, captain RB Cockburn, Army Veterinary Corps, died of pneumonia.Rachel FarrandInformation on Bralo Cemetery courtesy CWGC Towards the end of 1917, the Salonika lines of communication were diverted through Bralo, Itea and Taranto because of German submarine activity in the Mediterranean. The 49th Stationary Hospital was gradually transferred to Bralo and rest camps were established at Bralo and Itea. The cemetery was begun in October 1917 and used until April 1919. A large proportion of the burials are due to the influenza epidemic of 1918. The cemetery contains 95 Commonwealth burials of the First World War and seven war graves of other nationalities.
