Brigadier-General Ernest Arnold Cowans (5 December 1865 – October 1942) was a British Army officer who served in the First World War in command of an infantry brigade, where he was wounded in the Gallipoli campaign.
After having served in the 4th (Militia) Battalion of the King's (Shropshire Light Infantry) (later the King's Shropshire Light Infantry), into which he had been commissioned as a lieutenant in February 1885,[1] he transferred to the Regular Army and was commissioned into the Seaforth Highlanders in November 1886.
[2] He served in the Hazara Expeditions of 1888 and 1891 before going on to fight in the Second Boer War, where he was severely wounded at the Battle of Paardeberg in February 1900.
[4] He was promoted to the temporary rank of brigadier general in August,[5] after the British entry into the First World War.
Sniping continued day and night causing a steady drain in casualties, amongst the numbers was Brigadier-General Cowans, Commanding 159th Infantry Brigade.