Kevin Anthony James BOWD

BOWD, Kevin Anthony James

Service Number: 58366
Enlisted: 29 June 1942
Last Rank: Leading Aircraftman
Last Unit: No. 2 Operational Training Unit Mildura
Born: North Brighton, Victoria, Australia, 14 June 1924
Home Town: Brighton, Bayside, Victoria
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Not yet discovered
Died: Accidental (Ground Accident), Mildura, Victoria, Australia, 14 October 1945, aged 21 years
Cemetery: Mildura (Nichols Point) Public Cemetery, Victoria
War Graves Plot C. Row D. Grave 8, Mildura Public Cemetery, Mildura, Victoria, Australia
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour
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World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939: Involvement 58366
29 Jun 1942: Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, No. 2 Operational Training Unit Mildura
29 Jun 1942: Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, 58366

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Biography contributed by David Barlow

Son of Bertram Horace and Agnes Philomena Bowd of Brighton East, Victoria

Accidental gun-shot wound, on-duty - Bowd was shot with a rifle which was believed to have been unloaded in the guard-room at Mildura (an examination of this incident is contained in the book “The sky was their battlefield” by Ken Mackenzie Wright).