Anthony Cowgill; OBITUARY.SOLDIERS, engineers and businessmen can all too often have a language of their own, to the incomprehension in·com·pre·hen·sion n. Lack of comprehension or understanding. incomprehension Noun inability to understand incomprehensible adj Noun 1. and misunderstanding of the man in the street. But Anthony Cowgill was a model of clarity, in his first career in the Army, in his second as a senior engineer with Rolls-Royce and is his third incarnation, explaining the meaning behind some of the more impenetrable language coming from the European Union European Union (EU), name given since the ratification (Nov., 1993) of the Treaty of European Union, or Maastricht Treaty, to the European Community . From a Yorkshire background, he had studied mining engineering at Birmingham University before joining the regular army shortly before World War II. He served with the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers The Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME; pronounced phonetically as "Reemee") is a corps of the British Army that has responsibility for the maintenance, servicing and inspection of almost every electrical and mechanical piece of equipment within the , REME REME Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers , working on ways of making tanks partly submersible submersible, small, mobile undersea research vessel capable of functioning in the ocean depths. Development of a great variety of submersibles during the later 1950s and 1960s came about as a result of improved technology and in response to a demonstrated need for - invaluable at the D-Day landings - and later present at Luneberg Heath when German forces in the north surrendered to Montgomery. After service on the Partition Commission at Indian independence and later in Korea, he left the Army in the late 1960s as a brigadier, to join Rolls-Royce at a time when the RB211 engine was getting into difficulty and threatening to drag the company down with it - as it eventually did in 1971. After retirement in 1979, he set up the British Management Data Foundation to help industry and the government to talk to each other, and in 1986 he became involved in the bitter controversy over the repatriation Repatriation The process of converting a foreign currency into the currency of one's own country. Notes: If you are American, converting British Pounds back to U.S. dollars is an example of repatriation. of Cossacks and Yugoslavs at the end of World War II End of World War II can refer to:
Count Nicolai Tolstory had accused Harold McMillan and the then Brigadier Toby Low, later Lord Aldington, of war crimes. It was the start of a long and expensive legal case, eventually decided in Aldington's favour largely as a result of some exceptional research among war archives by a team led by Cowgill. He went on at the age of nearly 80 to produce a consolidated version of the Maastricht Treaty that proved so useful it was even taken up in the corridors of Brussels, followed by further guides to EU-speak right up at Lisbon this year. Anthony Cowgill, soldier, engineer and researcher Born, November 7, 1915; died, October 29, 2009 |
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