| Entry Text: | DAWSON, Lionel. Sound of the Guns: Being an Account of the Wars and Service of Admiral Sir Walter Cowan. xi, 258p., illus. Oxford: Pen in Hand, 1949.
Not a life but a battle history. Born in 1871 he revelled in and sought battle. In 1940, aged 70 he wangled his way back to war in combined ops and travelled to the Middle East with the Commandos, but soon switched to the Indian Cavalry to stay in action. He was captured, pistol in hand in action with the Italians. Repatriated he circuitously made his way back to the Mediterranean as Naval Liaison Officer to a commando unit and travelled and fought in Italy and Yugoslavia seeing action as late as age 73. He moved to the retired list in August 1945. |
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