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Personal data

• Name
• Initials
• Vorname
• Place of birth Cheltenham
• Land Gloucestershire, England
• Last residence Ponsonby, New Zealand
• Family Son of John Henry and Elizabeth Bowden, of Cheltenham, Gloucester, England.
• Profession Provision dealer

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment 4 April 1916, Trentham
• Service number 18752
• Rank Sapper
• Regiment and unit 5th Bn. New Zealand Light Railways Operating Service
• Army - Corps - Division New Zealand Division
• National force N.Z.E.F.
• Other data related to military career Promoted Lance Corporal in June 1916; embarked for England 26 July 1916, Wellington; embarkation Unit 15th Reinforcements Auckland Infantry Battalion, A Company ; to France 20 October 1916 ; accidental foot injury February 1917; gunshot wounds shoulder and wrist June 1917; trench fever and influenza at the end of June 1917; transferred to n°5 Railways Section with rank of sapper, december 1917, back to France;
  

Death

• Wounded 13 January, accident
• Type of wounds Died of accidental injuries, fractured right leg and abrasion arms, in n°3 Can CCS
• Died at the age of 23
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXVI - CC - 9A

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