William Eric BOWEN

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Service Number:	NX105107
Enlisted:	31 July 1942, Medowie, New South Wales
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/1st Infantry Battalion
Born:	Millers Forest, New South Wales, 30 August 1922
Home Town:	Not yet discovered
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Not yet discovered
Died:	Killed in Action, New Guinea, 16 July 1945, aged 22 years
Cemetery:	Lae War Cemetery Plot QQ, Row C, Grave 4 Roll of Honour Muswellbrook, Lae War Cemetery, Lae, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Private, NX105107
31 Jul 1942:	Enlisted Medowie, New South Wales
31 Jul 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NX105107, 2nd/1st Infantry Battalion

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Other service number N156240

2/1 Battalion

Rank - Private

Son of Joseph Cornelius and Agnes Mary Bowen, of Muswellbrook, New South Wales