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Name: COCKBURN, Archibald Coke McKinnon (Lieut.)
Nee: bro of Ethel, wife of Reginald Nevill Boustead
Birth Date: 11.5.1869 Tenby
Death Date: 31.7.1900 Port Ugowe, suicide when delirious
First Date: 1898
Last Date: 1900
Profession: Uganda military
Area: Uganda
Book Reference: North
War Service: Royal Welsh Fusiliers
General Information:
North - Former NCO, commissioned from the ranks; appt. Lieut. Uganda Mil. 10-1-1898; due to dep. UK for EA 27-1-1898; dep. Mombasa for Uganda 21-6-1898; Quartermaster UP Forces & recommended for promotion, Kampala, Sept. 1899; Kampala April 1900; dep. Entebbe for coast via Port Ugowe 12-7-1900; d. 31-7-1900, Port Ugowe, shot himself when delirious with blackwater fever
Gazette - 15-11-1900 - Probate and Administration - late Lieutenant A.C. Cockburn who died at Kisumu, Nandi District, Uganda Protectorate on 31st July 1900 .
Mombasa Cathedral plaque: in loving memory of / Archie Coke McKinnon Cockburn / lieut 2nd Batt Royal Welsh Fusiliers / 3rd son of Colonel G W Cockburn (late Black Watch) / who died at Port Ugowe, Uganda July 31st 1900 / in his 31st year, whilst serving with the Uganda Rifles / but the path of the just is as the shining light that shineth more and more unto the perfect day