Hedley Roy BOWDEN

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Service Number:	176
Enlisted:	6 October 1914
Last Rank:	Sapper
Last Unit:	3rd Field Company Engineers
Born:	Campania, Tas., August 1892
Home Town:	Hobart, Tasmania
Schooling:	Campania SS
Occupation:	Carpenter
Died:	Died of wounds, 19th General Hospital, Alexandria, Egypt, 23 July 1915
Cemetery:	Alexandria (Chatby) Military and War Memorial Cemetery M 18, Chatby Military and War Memorial Cemetery, Alexandria, Egypt
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Hobart Roll of Honour, Hobart St Andrews Church Roll of Honour, Men of Bothwell Honour Roll, Richmond War Memorial, Targa St. Patrick's River District WWI Pictorial Roll of Honour

22 Sep 1914:	Involvement Sapper, 176, 3rd Field Company Engineers, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '5' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Geelong embarkation_ship_number: A2 public_note: ''
22 Sep 1914:	Embarked Sapper, 176, 3rd Field Company Engineers, HMAT Geelong, Melbourne
6 Oct 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Sapper, 176, 3rd Field Company Engineers
23 Jul 1915:	Involvement Sapper, 176, 3rd Field Company Engineers, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 176 awm_unit: 3rd Field Company, Australian Engineers awm_rank: Sapper awm_died_date: 1915-07-23

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Son of Frederick James and Louisa Emily BOWDEN, Campania, Tas.

Wounded at Gallipoli and died of wounds in Egypt

Commemorated in Cornelian Bay Cemetery, Hobart