Ian Colquhoun Cowan: Flag Lieutenant Royal Navy to Admiral Sir Alfred Winsloe and Admiral Sir Robert Arbuthnot. Son of John and Margaret Cowan of ‘Westerlea’, Murrayfield. Died aged 26 on 31st May 1916 at the Battle of Jutland while serving on HMS Defence. Commemorated at Plymouth Naval Memorial.

Ian was a member of the Church of the Good Shepherd, Murrayfield, Edinburgh. There is a brass plaque to his memory in the church. He is remembered by the congregation.

Dean Fostekew