The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private J F Bower

Inscription - "NEARER MY GOD TO THEE"

Photograph by "GeertB"

Private John Frederick BOWER, G/6342, 8th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, died of wounds, 1st Casualty Clearing Station, Flanders, France, 6th April 1916, age 26.

Born Islington, Middlesex, London, N, son of George and Mary Ann Bower, of 94 Leytonstone Road, Stratford, E / 10, Leyton High Road, Stratford, London.

1911 Census - 276 Cann Hall Road, Leytonstone, NE - George Bower, head, age 53, married, clerk, diamond? merchants office, born St Pancras, London; Mary Ann Bower, wife, age 48, married 26 years, 5 children, 3 still alive, born Tucking Mill, Cornwall; William John Stanley Bower, son, age 24, single, book keeper, public? company, born Islington, London, John Frederick Bower, son, age 20, single, warehouseman, woollen warehouse, born Islington, London; Lilian Violet Taylor, servant, age 18, single, general servant domestic, born Bethnal Green, London.

Enlisted Stratford, Essex, age 25, height 5ft 10 inches, weight 146lbs, scar right cheek, moles bottom of back. Resided 276 Cannhall Road, Leytonstone Essex. Formerly tailor.

30th April 1915, enlisted; 1st may 1915, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 8th May 1915, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 15th December 1915, awarded 14 days Field Punishment No.2. by Commanding Officer for absence; 23rd December 1915, posted BEF & 8th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 23rd December 1915, embarked; 6th April 1916, 1st Casualty Clearing Station, wounded, gun shot wound to abdomen.

Statement of Relatives - 7th August 1919 - Mother, Mary Ann Bower, 10, Leyton High Road, Stratford; Brothers - George William Edward Bowen, age 34, Box 252, Kimberley, South Africa; William John Hensley Bowen, age 33, 10 Churston Avenue, Upton Manor, E13.

Buried Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension, II.D.212., Nord, France.

NOTE: Regimental History & Soldiers Died in the Great War show Service No as G/6343, CWGC we site show it as 6342.

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