BOWDEN, George Henry
| Service Number: | NX57214 |
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| Enlisted: | 11 July 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Mascot, New South Wales, Australia , 10 May 1912 |
| Home Town: | Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Factory Hand |
| Died: | Ballina, New South Wales, Australia, 10 June 1981, aged 69 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Lismore Memorial Gardens (Cemetery & Crematorium - Goonellabah) Northern Star (Lismore) 12JUN1981 Funeral notice 10JUN1981 'By request no flowers, please plant a tree in his memory'(Funeral Notice) |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 11 Jul 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal, NX57214 | |
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| 9 Apr 1941: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NX57214, embarked Sydney for Middle East | |
| 19 Apr 1942: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NX57214, embarked Suez for Sydney on board SS Dorset | |
| 14 Nov 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal, NX57214 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Lance Corporal George Henry Bowden (Service No:NX57214) enlisted in the AIF on 11 July 1940 and was attached to 6th and 17th Infantry Training Battalions. Private Bowden served in the Middle East (9 April 1941 - 19 April 1942) and in 1944 undertook Intelligence Duties ('Very good soldier. Pleasing personality' NAA 1944). Lance Corporal Bowden was attached to 2/2 Australian Ordnance Stores Coy at Discharge on 14 November 1945.
George was born in Sydney, New South Wales in 1912, youngest of three children of Robert Wyndham Bowden (b1884 in Sydney, New South Wales) and Martha Louisa Smedley (b1881 in Botany, New South Wales). Robert (a Railways Employee) and Martha married in 1906 in Sydney, and by 1919 Robert was a Police Constable at Narooma via Carbago before posting to Sydney in the early 1940s. Robert and Marha settled in Sydney, where Robert left the Police Force in 1943 and worked as a Commissionaire for Burns Philp & Co.
George worked as a Labourer in Sydney where, in 1936 he married his first wife Frances Eva Tarlington (b1905 in Murwillumbah, New South Wales) - Frances was working in Sydney as a Milliner. In 1942 the couple separated, and Frances worked in Sydney as a Packer until her death in 1953. Following his Discharge from the Army in 1946, George worked as a Lift Attendant in Curl Curl, Sydney and, in 1953 he married his second wife Elizabeth (Lee) Winifred Bowden (b1913 in Sydney, New South Wales). George and Lee lived in Sydney, where George worked as an Assembler before settling in Ballina. George died in 1981 and Lee in 1998.
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