Lawrence Vincent Moore Cosgrave ( English Lawrence Vincent Moore Cosgrave , 1890-1971) - Canadian military and diplomat, colonel. He participated in the signing of the Surrender Act of Japan in the Second World War by Canada.
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 L. Kosgreyv signs the Japan Surrender Act on board the battleship Missouri on September 2, 1945 | |||
| Date of Birth | August 28, 1890 | ||
| Place of Birth | Toronto , Canada | ||
| Date of death | July 28, 1971 (80 years) | ||
| Place of death | Knowlton , Quebec , Canada | ||
| Affiliation |  Canada | ||
| Rank | the colonel | ||
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Biography
Lawrence Cosgrave was born in Toronto into the family of the founder of the Cosgrave & Sons Brewery Company; his brother James was a partner of E. Taylor, the owner of the Cosgrave Stables horse races. Lawrence graduated from the Royal Military College of Canada in 1912, student number 851 [1] , and then continued his education at McGill University .
During the First World War, L. Kosgreyv served as a junior artillery officer in the Canadian Expeditionary Force in France. Twice he was awarded the British Order "For Outstanding Merit" - in 1916 and 1918, and later - the French Military Cross .
Cosgrave claimed that his friend, military surgeon John McCray, wrote his famous poem On the Flanders Fields on May 3, 1915, placing a piece of paper on Cosgrave's back. The poem was first published on December 8 of the same year in Punch magazine and subsequently became one of the most famous poems about the First World War. On October 5, 1963, L. Kosgrave unveiled a memorial in honor of John McCray in Besing ( Ypres , West Flanders , Belgium ).
After World War I, L. Kosgrave wrote a book entitled “Follow-up Thoughts on Armageddon: A Gamma of Emotions Created by War, pointing to morality that is not too obvious” ( after the story of Armageddon, pointing to a moral that is not too obvious ), published in 1919 by his wife Beryl (nee Hunter Jones) in Toronto [2] .
After the war, L. Kosgrave served as an assistant to the Canadian government trade commissioner in London (1922–24); in the position of the Canadian Trade Commissioner - in London (1924), Shanghai (1925-1935), Melbourne (1925-1937 years) and Sydney (1937-1942 years).
During World War II, he was a Canadian military attache in Australia. As the official representative of Canada, on September 2, 1945, L. Kosgrave signed the Japan Surrender Act on board the battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
During the signing of the act with Cosgrave, an incident occurred that remained unpublicized for a long time: since Cosgrave was blind in one eye due to injury during World War I, in the copy of the act intended for the Japanese side, he mistakenly put his signature in the box where the signature of the representative of France was to be signed, as a result of which the signatures of all subsequent participants in the ceremony “slid” down one line, and there was no space left for the signature of the representative of New Zealand, Leonard Isitt. The situation was corrected by MacArthur’s chief of staff, General , who corrected the document with his own hand, which was accepted by the Japanese side [3] . American and Japanese copies of the Japan Surrender Act are currently stored aboard the battleship Missouri, which is permanently stationed at Pearl Harbor .
L.Kosgrayv since the time of his mission in Shanghai was familiar with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Japan M.Sigemitsu , who signed the act of surrender by the emperor and the government of Japan. In 1953, at the coronation ceremony of Elizabeth II , Cosgrave met with Shigemitsu in London [4] .
After World War II, L. Kosgrave served in various consular posts in Asia, and in Europe in the 1950s [3] . From 1952 to 1955 he was temporary charge d'affaires in Portugal [5] .
L. Kosgreyve died at his home in Knowlton (Eastern settlements) of the province of Quebec on July 28, 1971.
Notes
- ↑ RMC post-nominals are student numbers and / or Military Colleges Alumni club numbers. The numbers are sequential and meaningful to alumni. Honorary graduates with an interview.
- ↑ Archive.org Afterthoughts of Armageddon , retrieved 2012-03-25
- ↑ 1 2 Ellwand, Geoff. "Making a mess of history," CBC News. April 27, 2006.
- ↑ (recited by Col. Lawrence Moore Cosgrave DSO, to his Grandson).
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Literature
- Preston, Adrian (RMC 4237). and Peter Dennis. (1976). Swords and Covenants. London: Croom Helm ; Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield. ISBN 978-0-87471-862-1
- Preston, Richard Arthur (RMC H16511). (1991). To Serve Canada: A History of the Royal Military College of Canada. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press . ISBN 978-0-7766-0327-8 (cloth)
- ____________. (1970). Canada's RMC - A History of Royal Military College, 2nd edition, 1982. Toronto: University of Toronto Press . ISBN 978-0-8020-3222-5 (cloth)
- ____________. (1968). RMC and Kingston: The Effects of Imperial and Military Influences on a Canadian Community. Raleigh, North Carolina: Duke University Press ; see Ontario History. Vol. 60, pp. 105-123. September 1968. Kingston, Ontario .
- Smith, R. Guy C. (RMC H1877). (1984). As you were! Ex-Cadets Remember Vol. I, 1876-1918; Volume II, 1919-1984. Kingston, Ontario : RMC . The RMC Club of Canada.