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Staff Serjeant ( Armourer ) Victor Harold Bowes
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Staff Serjeant ( Armourer ) Victor Harold Bowes

Birth
Chatham, Medway Unitary Authority, Kent, England
Death
10 Mar 1915 (aged 22)
Neuve-Chapelle, Departement du Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
Monument
Richebourg-l'Avoue, Departement du Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France Add to Map
Plot
Panel 47.
Memorial ID
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Casualty of the Great War, Victor served with the Army Ordnance Corps~Service No:A/1236,attached 8th Bn. Royal Scots.He was 22.


His brother, Driver Reginald Leonard Ronald Bowes aged 22, also fell.He died 31st August 1917 whilst serving with the Royal Engineers
and rests in Reninghelst New Military Cemetery.


They were sons of Peter and Alice Jane Bowes of Fort Pitt Military Hospital, Chatham and they are remembered on the family grave at Fort Pitt Military Cemetery, Rochester, Kent.

At the 1901 England Census, he was shown as Victor Harrold Bowes, born about 1893 in Chatham, and Household Members were:
Peter Bowes 46
Alice Jane Bowes 40
Thomas William Bowes 13
Edgar Alfred Bowes 10
Victor Harrold Bowes 8
Reginald Leonard Bowes 6
Victoria Gladys Mary Bowes 3

-and then at the 1911 England Census he was a Boarder, aged 18 at 17 Salisbury Road, Enfield Lock, Middlesex, single and a soldier [Armourer] with the rank of Private in the Army Ordnance Corps.

[Birth Place was given as New Brompton, Kent.]




Casualty of the Great War, Victor served with the Army Ordnance Corps~Service No:A/1236,attached 8th Bn. Royal Scots.He was 22.


His brother, Driver Reginald Leonard Ronald Bowes aged 22, also fell.He died 31st August 1917 whilst serving with the Royal Engineers
and rests in Reninghelst New Military Cemetery.


They were sons of Peter and Alice Jane Bowes of Fort Pitt Military Hospital, Chatham and they are remembered on the family grave at Fort Pitt Military Cemetery, Rochester, Kent.

At the 1901 England Census, he was shown as Victor Harrold Bowes, born about 1893 in Chatham, and Household Members were:
Peter Bowes 46
Alice Jane Bowes 40
Thomas William Bowes 13
Edgar Alfred Bowes 10
Victor Harrold Bowes 8
Reginald Leonard Bowes 6
Victoria Gladys Mary Bowes 3

-and then at the 1911 England Census he was a Boarder, aged 18 at 17 Salisbury Road, Enfield Lock, Middlesex, single and a soldier [Armourer] with the rank of Private in the Army Ordnance Corps.

[Birth Place was given as New Brompton, Kent.]






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