Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards

25 September1840: Ensign and Lieutenant

11 June1847: Lieutenant and Captain

20 June1854: Captain & Lieutenant-Colonel

1854

James Charles Murray Cowell was killed in action on 5th November 1854 during the Crimean War. He fell at the Battle of Inkerman while leading three companies of his regiment in the last successful charge against the dense Russian columns at the two gun sandbag battery opposite Inkerman and overlooking the Tschernaya Valley.

He was buried on Cathcart Hill near Sebastopol in one grave with seven of his brother Coldstream Guards officers who all fell the same day.

In 1854, his father, Colonel Cowell, erected a cenotaph in bronze, by Marochetti, in Llanelli Parish Church to his memory. The bronze was a copy of the marble cenotaph in St Paul’s Cathederal, London.

James Charles Murray Cowell is remembered by Inkerman Street.