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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		BOWDEN
Given Name(s) or Initial(s)		William Cambell
Regimental Number		67
Rank		Trooper
Unit Name		3rd New South Wales Imperial Bushmen
State		NSW
Extracts and Comments (from Sources as shown)		B5204: shearer aged 28 from Sandy Ck. Huon Lane Vic., 1 year 108 days NSWIB. URL3: Sydney NSW, Carrington Contingent photo. URL3: ?Lieut. BOWDEN, photo amongst No 1 Sqn. NSW Drafts c3.1901. URL4: BOWDEN William Campbell died 15.9.1918, at his residence, Day Road, Cheltenham NSW, late Corporal, 7th Light Horse, AIF., also Sergeant Imperial Bushman Boer War, aged 44, beloved husband of Mable Bowden. URL5: WW1 AIF 1230 9th Reinforcements for 7LH a shearer aged 40 in 1915 born in Auckland NZ, nok in Rockdale NSW, S. Africa Imperial Bushmen 1 year 109 days, Doyles Aust. Scouts 119 days, Transvaal Vols. N. Rifles 2 years 3 months & Legion of Frontiersmen, returned from Suez per Wandilla 13.12.1915 (aortic valvular incompetence & chronic bronchitis), discharged MU 28.4.1916, died 15.9.1918. URL6: Sergt. WC BOWDEN amongst the Carrington Contingent (Riverina Bushmen) reinforcements who embarked for S. Africa from Sydney on the 'Manhattan' 1.4.1902.
Source References		Murray: Official Records of the Australian Contingents etc. page(s) 150 B5204: National Archives of Australia series B5204 folder 12A B2455: National Archives of Australia series B2455 Town&Country: Aust. Town and Country journal date(s) 8.3 & 5.4.1902 Syd. Herald : Sydney Morning Herald newspaper date(s) 21.9.1918 B2455: National Archives of Australia series B2455
External Link URL1		naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/imagine.asp?B=3102447&I=1&SE=1
External Link URL2		aif.adfa.edu.au/showPerson?pid=28347
External Link URL3		nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71521224
External Link URL4		nla.gov.au/nla.news-article15803659
External Link URL5		recordsearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp?B=3102447
External Link URL6		nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71522291

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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