Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Private J. Cowman, 20th Battalion (The Canterbury Regiment) N.Z. Infantry, who was killed in the same action that Captain C. H. Upham, of the same regiment, won his second Victoria Cross at El Ruweisat Ridge on 15 July 1942

1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; New Zealand War Service Medal, these five unnamed as issued, together with New Zealand Memorial Cross, G.VI.R. (16187 Pte. J. Cowman) extremely fine (6) £300-£400

James Cowan, 20th Battalion (The Canterbury Regiment), New Zealand Infantry, was killed in action on 15 July 1942, aged 32, and is commemorated by name on the Alamein Memorial. On 14-15 July 1942, at El Ruweisat Ridge, Captain C. H. Upham, also of the 20th Battalion (The Canterbury Regiment) won a Bar to the Victoria Cross he had won in Crete the year before.