BOWDEN, Reginald Alwyn
| Service Number: | 3018 |
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| Enlisted: | 23 August 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 20th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 16 April 1888 |
| Home Town: | Manly, Manly Vale, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Manly Public School, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Electrician |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 5 May 1916, aged 28 years |
| Cemetery: |
Brewery Orchard Cemetery, Bois-Grenier Plot IV, Row C, Grave No. 25 |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Manly War Memorial NSW |
World War 1 Service
| 23 Aug 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3018, 20th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 20 Dec 1915: | Involvement Private, 3018, 20th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '13' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Suevic embarkation_ship_number: A29 public_note: '' | |
| 20 Dec 1915: | Embarked Private, 3018, 20th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Suevic, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of George William Boyce Bowden and Mary Gordon Bowden; husband of Sylvia L. Bowden, of Daintry St., Manly, New South Wales.
"MEMORIES OF LOVE" HIS WIDOW, SYLVIA
1906 - Reginald Alwyn Bowden (silver medal).— On April 20, whilst bathing on the Ocean Beach, Manly, a young girl named Florence Alice Wright, was carried out to sea. Mr. Bowden swam to her rescue, and with great difficulty managed to bring her to shallow water, but on being brought to shore all efforts to restore animation failed.
BOWDEN.—Private Reginald Alwyn Bowden, dearly beloved son of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Bowden, 72 Pittwater-road, Manly, killed in action in France, May 5, 1916, in his 29th year, leaving a wife and child.
BOWDEN.—In loving memory of my dear husband and daddy, Pte. Reginald Alwyn Bowden, killed in action in France, May 5, 1916.
He is not dead, he is just away.
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