VI COMMANDO

Prt. Cousins was reported as having been with the Commando rear guard party that had followed on from Hove / Southampton on 18^th July 1944

He was reported as being wounded in the buttocks by shrapnel on the night of 21^st/ 22^nd June 1944 during a fighting patrol that had gone badly wrong when the men of No.3 Troop were shelled by their own artillery.