Edwin Richard Cowan

Edwin Richard Cowan was a Flying Officer, service number 66596. CWGC records his death on 6 February 1943, aged 23, and his burial at Dely Ibrahim War Cemetery, Algeria, grave 3.G.1. The London Gazette records his Distinguished Flying Medal on 26 March 1943, and the RAFCommands award index links the award to the same service number.

The general web search for Cowan returned mainly Gazette and award-index material rather than a separate detailed loss page. The Gazette PDF confirms that he was Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve and that the award notice was posthumous, describing him as since deceased. Aircrew Remembered provides a matching exact casualty row for the same name, service number, rank, date of death and burial. No aircraft serial, crew list, unit or loss circumstance is added here because the live sources checked for this batch did not provide a second detailed page securely tied to Cowan beyond the award and casualty records.