6 February 1919 We Lost 231

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Major Bevil Brian Quiller-Couch

Today’s losses include:

  • A man whose brother was killed in October 1917
  • The fiancé of VAD member and poet May Wedderburn Cannan

Today’s highlighted casualties include:

  • Major Douglas Harry Acworth MC (Cokes Rifles) dies at Port Said, Egypt at age 33. His brother had been killed in action in October 1917.
  • Major Bevil Brian Quiller-Couch DSO MC (Royal Field Artillery) dies in Cologne, Germany at age 28. He is the son of ‘Sir’ Arthur and Lady Quiller-Couch and had served continuously in Flanders and France from August 1914, and the fiancé of Poet and member of the VAD May Wedderburn Cannan