View entry
Name: CHOWNE, Charles Henry William
Birth Date: 6.6.1870 Shoreditch
Death Date: 2.11.1895 killed at Chengoni, shot through heart
First Date: 1894
Last Date: 1895
Profession: Military, Lance Corporal
Area: Mombasa, Chengoni
Book Reference: David Woolley, North
General Information:
Photograph of grave at Ribe sent by David Woolley - 'In Memory of C. Chowne RMLI, HMS Phoebe, Killed at Chengoni November 2 1895
North - RMLI - joined HMS Phoebe at Zanzibar 26-11-1894; died 2-11-1895 killed during shore operation at Chengoni between Mombasa and Kilifi, buried at Ribe Mission