Detail victim

Name BOWDEN
Initials EL
First name EDWIN LEONARD
Place of birth Cheltenham
Country Gloucestershire, England
Last residence Ponsonby, New Zealand
Family Son of John Henry and Elizabeth Bowden, of Cheltenham, Gloucester, England.
Profession Provision dealer

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;

Wounded 13 January, accident
Type of wounds Died of accidental injuries, fractured right leg and abrasion arms, in n°3 Can CCS
Date of death 17 January 1918
Died at the age of 23
Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXVI - CC - 9A