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3 unusual facts about William Harrison Cowlishaw


Edward Johnston

After studying published copies of manuscripts by architect William Harrison Cowlishaw, and a handbook by Edward F. Strange, he was introduced to Cowlishaw in 1898 and then to William Lethaby, principal of the Central School of Arts and Crafts.

William Harrison Cowlishaw

At the end of World War I, like many Arts and Crafts architects of the period, he was commissioned by the Imperial (now Commonwealth) War Graves Commission to design memorials and cemetery layouts in Flanders and France under Sir Frederic G. Kenyon, the Commission's advisor on architecture and layout.

Amongst these smaller cemeteries were Prowse Point, Rifle House and Devonshire, all around the area of Ypres.



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