Walter Henry Cowan

Sir Walter Henry “Tich” Cowan, 1st Baronet KCB , DSO , MVO (born June 11, 1871 in Crickhowell , Brecknockshire , † February 14, 1956 in Leamington Spa , Warwickshire ) was a British admiral.

Life

As the successor to Edwyn Alexander-Sinclair , he led a British naval squadron in the Baltic Sea from January 6, 1919. On behalf of the government, it provided massive support for the independence efforts of the Estonian and Latvian people in the Baltic States. In recognition of his services, he was raised to hereditary baronet , of the Baltic on January 28, 1921 .

From April 1921 to May 1923, Cowan commanded the battlecruiser squadron of the British Atlantic Fleet , with the HMS Hood , which was then in service , as his flagship . Cowan was made admiral in 1927 and retired in 1931. In the Second World War he was reactivated and served with the British commandos . In the battle of Gazala he was captured by troops of the Axis powers, but later exchanged again.

Since his marriage to Catherine Cayley († 1934), which he entered into in 1901, remained childless, his baronet title expired on his death in 1956.

Honors

In 2007 the Sandown-class Estonian minehunter Admiral Cowan was named after Cowan.

literature

Geoffrey Bennett: Freeing the Baltic. Birlinn, 2002, ISBN 978-1-84341-001-0 .

Web links

hmshood.com
aim25.ac.uk
Biography "Walter Henry Cowan". King's College London - " Liddell Hart " -Centre-for-Military-Archives (English)
Admiral Sir Walter Henry Cowan, 1st Bt. On thepeerage.com

Individual evidence

↑ Karsten Brüggemann : The establishment of the Republic of Estonia and the end of the “one and indivisible Russia”: The Petrograd Front of the Russian Civil War 1918–1920. 2002 (Publications of the Eastern European Institute Munich: Series of research on the Baltic Sea area; Vol. 6). Zugl .: Hamburg, Universität, Dissertation, 1999, ISBN 3-447-04481-0 , p. 155. ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).

↑ Estonian Review ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 313 kB) @1@ 2

personal data
SURNAME	Cowan, Walter Henry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Cowan, Tich; Cowan, Walter H .; Cowan, Sir Walter, 1st Baronet
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British admiral in World War I
DATE OF BIRTH	June 11, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH	Crickhowell , Brecknockshire
DATE OF DEATH	February 14, 1956
Place of death	Leamington Spa

[1] Karsten Brüggemann : The establishment of the Republic of Estonia and the end of the “one and indivisible Russia”: The Petrograd Front of the Russian Civil War 1918–1920. 2002 (Publications of the Eastern European Institute Munich: Series of research on the Baltic Sea area; Vol. 6). Zugl .: Hamburg, Universität, Dissertation, 1999, ISBN 3-447-04481-0 , p. 155. ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).