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BOWDEN, James Noel

Service Number:	VX45357
Enlisted:	28 June 1940, Leongatha, Victoria, Australia
Last Rank:	Lieutenant
Last Unit:	2nd/23rd Infantry Battalion
Born:	Sale, Victoria, Australia, 22 December 1908
Home Town:	Not yet discovered
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Farmer
Died:	Killed in Action, Libya, 17 May 1941, aged 32 years
Cemetery:	Knightsbridge War Cemetery, Acroma, Libya Plot 15, Row C, Grave 21 Roll of Honour Yarram Victoria, Australia, Knightsbridge War Cemetery, Acroma, Darnah province, Libya
Memorials:	Albury 2/23 Australian Infantry Battalion Albury's Own Honour Roll, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Yarram WW2 Memorial Pillars

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Lieutenant, VX45357
28 Jun 1940:	Enlisted Leongatha, Victoria, Australia
28 Jun 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lieutenant, VX45357, 2nd/23rd Infantry Battalion
4 Nov 1940:	Embarked HMT Strathmore from Melbourne
3 Jan 1946:	Honoured Mention in Dispatches, Posthumously awarded for bravery during Siege of Tobruk May 1941

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Biography

Rank LT.

2/23 Battalion

Son of James Johnathon Bowden and Annie St. Clare Bowden.