Lieutenant Robert Orlando COWEY, a 26 year old Area officer from Wollongong, New South Wales. He enlisted on 3 September 1914 and was allotted to the 3rd Battalion, B Company which embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board HMAT A14 Euripides on 19 October 1914. During the Gallipoli Campaign he was Wounded in Action 25 April 1915. At the conclusion of the Great War, he Returned to Australia, 10 May 1919

Sydney Mail, 19 May 1915, p. 8.