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Hint: This site is intended as a search aid - not a definitive source. It is essentially an index to documents that seem to relate to this person plus a very brief precis of relevant elements. Sources often conflict and I also flag things with a ? when I am unsure. So if the information below is important to you, then please check the original sources to see what else they contain (and in case I have inadvertantly introduced transcription and/or precising errors). There can be additional information that was not included in the database for both space and copyright reasons.


 

Surname BAWDEN
Given Name(s) or Initial(s) Edwin Charles Matthew
Regimental Number 122
RankFarrier
Unit Name 4th Victorian Imperial Bushmen
StateVic
Extracts and Comments
(from Sources as shown)
Murray: died in Melbourne Hospital 7.8.1901.
Price1: War Memorials Ballarat Wangaratta Canberra & Yarrawonga.
B5179: born 1878 a blacksmith c/- Moreland Vic. next of kin in Eldorado.
URL4: Farrier Charles BAWDIN memorial in El Dorado Vic.
URL8: Aust. Boer War Memorial database record.
URL9: died before the planned welcome home in El Dorado.
URL10: MEASLES AMONG THE TROOPS. Eight of the returned soldiers were taken to the Melbourne Hospital suffering from measles. Their names are Alexander CLARK, Norman NICHOLSON, William JENNER, Frederick BOWMAN, Edward BAWDEN, James LINDEN, Michael HARTIGAN and -- NEMPHEY. Of these NEMPHEY and CLARK are the only serious cases.
O&MAdv.: At the unveiling of the 'Mackenzie Memorial', Wangaratta 9.4.1902, ... Mr, J BOWSER MLA said ... Farrier-Sergeant BAWDEN's case was one of peculiar front. He came back, only to expire after his arrival in Melbourne - within sight of home - from measels contracted on the voyage from South Africa.
Source References
Murray: Official Records of the Australian Contingents etc. page(s) 262 336
Price1: They Proved to all the Earth page(s) 39
B5179: National Archives of Australia series B5179 item A
Droogleever: That Ragged Mob - 3VB & 4VIB page(s) 412, 534
NE Ensign: North Eastern Ensign (Benalla) newspaper date(s) 16.8.1901
Argus: Melbourne Argus newspaper date(s) 31.7.1901
O&MAdv.: 'Ovens & Murray Advertiser' newspaper (Beechworth Vic.) date(s) 12.4.1902
External Link URL1www.hagsoc.org.au/sagraves/nmcdb/nmcdb-search.php
External Link URL2www.skp.com.au/memorials/pages/30178.htm
External Link URL3awm.gov.au/database/roh.asp
External Link URL4www.albury.net.au/~tim/eldor1.htm
External Link URL5www.hagsoc.org.au/sagraves/photos/mem309.jpg
External Link URL6www.hagsoc.org.au/sagraves/photos/memv0028.php
External Link URL7www.hagsoc.org.au/sagraves/photos/mem304.jpg
External Link URL8bwm.org.au/site/Edward_Bawden.php
External Link URL9nla.gov.au/nla.news-article70779123
External Link URL10nla.gov.au/nla.news-article10564125


Please email me if you can contribute any other relevant information about this person (eg any other military service, where in Australia they came from or when/where they died). Also, if you find an external link broken.


Apology: For some time now it has been difficult to keep up with the newly available sources (especially the Trove newspaper site) plus the flow of contributions and queries. So I have been forced to prioritise maintenance and data entry over replying to correspondence. Nevertheless, your contributions are being added to the database and acknowledged on the contributions page and, although my replies are many months behind, I will attempt to get to them more often.
 
Colin Roe
Canberra

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