C Company,  1-37 Armor

Born:  6 Aug 1981 in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA

Killed in Action: 16 May 2004 (aged 22) in Karbala, Iraq

Buried:  Arlington National Cemetery , Arlington, Virginia  

 

2LT Leonard Cowherd, 22, of Culpeper, Va., was killed in action on 16 May 2004 while serving as the platoon leader 1/C/1-37. He was struck by small arms and rocket-propelled-grenade fire while securing a building near the Mukhayam Mosque in Karbala, Iraq. Cowherd was a 2003 West Point graduate and left behind a wife, Sarah, parents, Leonard and Mary Ann, a sister and two brothers including a twin. The auditorium of the Wakefield Country Day School which he attended is named after him.