Captain Robert Bowes Cockburn was the son of Robert Cockburn MRCVS and his wife, Annie, of Eastwood Nottingham. He was educated at Chesterfield Grammar School and then attended the Royal Veterinary College, London, qualifying in July 1911.
He was commissioned as a Lieutenant in the Army Veterinary Corps in January 1916 and was promoted to Captain in January 1917. He served as a Veterinary Officer attached to the 130th Brigade Royal Field Artillery on the Salonika front in Greece. He died of pneumonia, likely following influenza, on 27th September 1918, shortly before the conclusion of the Salonika campaign.
He was 28 years old and is buried in Bralo British Cemetery.
Captain Cockburn’s obituary appeared in The Veterinary Record dated October 10, 1918.
