There are two gravestones in two local cemeteries for Edward. See memorial #129797051. After further research was done, it was found out on 11/14/2019 that his body was transported back to the U.S. and interred in Greenwood on 25 Jul 1921 in Section S, Lot 227. A gravestone was requested by Simon Bowman in 1932 and was placed in Greenwood. His first military gravestone is located in the southwest section of Peninsula and we may never know the mystery of why there are two military stones.
BODY OF PRIVATE EDW. BOWMAN, WAR HERO, WILL ARRIVE TODAY
ENLISTED HERE ON FIRST DAY OF WAR-KILLED AT BERZYLE-SAC, NEAR SOISSONS.
Was One of Twenty-two Members of Family In France –Picked for Especially Hard Fighting.
The body of Edward F. Bowman, the first Wheeling boy to volunteer in the World War, was shipped last evening from Jersey City and will arrive in Wheeling over the Pennsylvania road today. A telegram to this effect was received last evening by Edward’s father, Simon A. Bowman of 1210 McCulloch street. The funeral will be held probably next Monday or Tuesday. The American Legion will participate and the Rev. L. S. Grosse will conduct the services. Interment will be made at Greenwood.
Edward Bowman, or “Eddie" as he was known to his large circle of friends, was working on the Wheeling News when the war began. He enlisted the same day that the state of war with Germany was declared – April 6, 1917-and was the first sent to Camp Ringgold. Later, he went to Fort McAllister and served for a short time on the Mexican border.
A Picked Man
With his comrades of the Twenty-eight infantry, First division, he sailed for France on June 3, arriving June 26. He was in the trenches eight times and over the top four times. He was one of 300 men who held the line at Cantigny in the face of great odds, and was one of the men picked to break the German’s line and cut the railroad to Soissons. The order at Soissons was to “pick officers and men who would not turn back”. In the terrific battle that followed, Eddie’s regiment suffered more than 1,800 casualties. He was a machine gunner and had just succeeded in wiping out two nests of German machine guns when truck by a shell and instantly killed. This was part of the second battle of the Marne Private Bowman was cited for meritorious action and was awarded the silver star for gallantry. He was killed on July 22, 1918, after five days and nights he and his comrades near the town of Berzy-Le-Sec were without food, which was finally brought up under cover of darkness.
Private Bowman’s father and mother had twenty-three relatives in the war, of whom twenty-two served in France. His father’s grandfather fought in the war of 1812 and saw the burning of the capitol at Washington. Everett Bowman, whose body was recently brought home and buried, was Eddie’s cousin.
Eddie’s particular chum in the war was Russell Goodwin of Gransville, Ky., who is now located at Portsmouth, Ohio. He helped to bury Eddie on the battlefield, and may be here for the funeral.
Transcribed from The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer, Friday, July 22, 1921, pg five
BODY OF PRIVATE EDW. BOWMAN, WAR HERO, WILL ARRIVE TODAY
ENLISTED HERE ON FIRST DAY OF WAR-KILLED AT BERZYLE-SAC, NEAR SOISSONS.
Was One of Twenty-two Members of Family In France –Picked for Especially Hard Fighting.
The body of Edward F. Bowman, the first Wheeling boy to volunteer in the World War, was shipped last evening from Jersey City and will arrive in Wheeling over the Pennsylvania road today. A telegram to this effect was received last evening by Edward’s father, Simon A. Bowman of 1210 McCulloch street. The funeral will be held probably next Monday or Tuesday. The American Legion will participate and the Rev. L. S. Grosse will conduct the services. Interment will be made at Greenwood.
Edward Bowman, or “Eddie" as he was known to his large circle of friends, was working on the Wheeling News when the war began. He enlisted the same day that the state of war with Germany was declared – April 6, 1917-and was the first sent to Camp Ringgold. Later, he went to Fort McAllister and served for a short time on the Mexican border.
A Picked Man
With his comrades of the Twenty-eight infantry, First division, he sailed for France on June 3, arriving June 26. He was in the trenches eight times and over the top four times. He was one of 300 men who held the line at Cantigny in the face of great odds, and was one of the men picked to break the German’s line and cut the railroad to Soissons. The order at Soissons was to “pick officers and men who would not turn back”. In the terrific battle that followed, Eddie’s regiment suffered more than 1,800 casualties. He was a machine gunner and had just succeeded in wiping out two nests of German machine guns when truck by a shell and instantly killed. This was part of the second battle of the Marne Private Bowman was cited for meritorious action and was awarded the silver star for gallantry. He was killed on July 22, 1918, after five days and nights he and his comrades near the town of Berzy-Le-Sec were without food, which was finally brought up under cover of darkness.
Private Bowman’s father and mother had twenty-three relatives in the war, of whom twenty-two served in France. His father’s grandfather fought in the war of 1812 and saw the burning of the capitol at Washington. Everett Bowman, whose body was recently brought home and buried, was Eddie’s cousin.
Eddie’s particular chum in the war was Russell Goodwin of Gransville, Ky., who is now located at Portsmouth, Ohio. He helped to bury Eddie on the battlefield, and may be here for the funeral.
Transcribed from The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer, Friday, July 22, 1921, pg five
There are two gravestones in two local cemeteries for Edward. See memorial #129797051. After further research was done, it was found out on 11/14/2019 that his body was transported back to the U.S. and interred in Greenwood on 25 Jul 1921 in Section S, Lot 227. A gravestone was requested by Simon Bowman in 1932 and was placed in Greenwood. His first military gravestone is located in the southwest section of Peninsula and we may never know the mystery of why there are two military stones.
BODY OF PRIVATE EDW. BOWMAN, WAR HERO, WILL ARRIVE TODAY
ENLISTED HERE ON FIRST DAY OF WAR-KILLED AT BERZYLE-SAC, NEAR SOISSONS.
Was One of Twenty-two Members of Family In France –Picked for Especially Hard Fighting.
The body of Edward F. Bowman, the first Wheeling boy to volunteer in the World War, was shipped last evening from Jersey City and will arrive in Wheeling over the Pennsylvania road today. A telegram to this effect was received last evening by Edward’s father, Simon A. Bowman of 1210 McCulloch street. The funeral will be held probably next Monday or Tuesday. The American Legion will participate and the Rev. L. S. Grosse will conduct the services. Interment will be made at Greenwood.
Edward Bowman, or “Eddie" as he was known to his large circle of friends, was working on the Wheeling News when the war began. He enlisted the same day that the state of war with Germany was declared – April 6, 1917-and was the first sent to Camp Ringgold. Later, he went to Fort McAllister and served for a short time on the Mexican border.
A Picked Man
With his comrades of the Twenty-eight infantry, First division, he sailed for France on June 3, arriving June 26. He was in the trenches eight times and over the top four times. He was one of 300 men who held the line at Cantigny in the face of great odds, and was one of the men picked to break the German’s line and cut the railroad to Soissons. The order at Soissons was to “pick officers and men who would not turn back”. In the terrific battle that followed, Eddie’s regiment suffered more than 1,800 casualties. He was a machine gunner and had just succeeded in wiping out two nests of German machine guns when truck by a shell and instantly killed. This was part of the second battle of the Marne Private Bowman was cited for meritorious action and was awarded the silver star for gallantry. He was killed on July 22, 1918, after five days and nights he and his comrades near the town of Berzy-Le-Sec were without food, which was finally brought up under cover of darkness.
Private Bowman’s father and mother had twenty-three relatives in the war, of whom twenty-two served in France. His father’s grandfather fought in the war of 1812 and saw the burning of the capitol at Washington. Everett Bowman, whose body was recently brought home and buried, was Eddie’s cousin.
Eddie’s particular chum in the war was Russell Goodwin of Gransville, Ky., who is now located at Portsmouth, Ohio. He helped to bury Eddie on the battlefield, and may be here for the funeral.
Transcribed from The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer, Friday, July 22, 1921, pg five
BODY OF PRIVATE EDW. BOWMAN, WAR HERO, WILL ARRIVE TODAY
ENLISTED HERE ON FIRST DAY OF WAR-KILLED AT BERZYLE-SAC, NEAR SOISSONS.
Was One of Twenty-two Members of Family In France –Picked for Especially Hard Fighting.
The body of Edward F. Bowman, the first Wheeling boy to volunteer in the World War, was shipped last evening from Jersey City and will arrive in Wheeling over the Pennsylvania road today. A telegram to this effect was received last evening by Edward’s father, Simon A. Bowman of 1210 McCulloch street. The funeral will be held probably next Monday or Tuesday. The American Legion will participate and the Rev. L. S. Grosse will conduct the services. Interment will be made at Greenwood.
Edward Bowman, or “Eddie" as he was known to his large circle of friends, was working on the Wheeling News when the war began. He enlisted the same day that the state of war with Germany was declared – April 6, 1917-and was the first sent to Camp Ringgold. Later, he went to Fort McAllister and served for a short time on the Mexican border.
A Picked Man
With his comrades of the Twenty-eight infantry, First division, he sailed for France on June 3, arriving June 26. He was in the trenches eight times and over the top four times. He was one of 300 men who held the line at Cantigny in the face of great odds, and was one of the men picked to break the German’s line and cut the railroad to Soissons. The order at Soissons was to “pick officers and men who would not turn back”. In the terrific battle that followed, Eddie’s regiment suffered more than 1,800 casualties. He was a machine gunner and had just succeeded in wiping out two nests of German machine guns when truck by a shell and instantly killed. This was part of the second battle of the Marne Private Bowman was cited for meritorious action and was awarded the silver star for gallantry. He was killed on July 22, 1918, after five days and nights he and his comrades near the town of Berzy-Le-Sec were without food, which was finally brought up under cover of darkness.
Private Bowman’s father and mother had twenty-three relatives in the war, of whom twenty-two served in France. His father’s grandfather fought in the war of 1812 and saw the burning of the capitol at Washington. Everett Bowman, whose body was recently brought home and buried, was Eddie’s cousin.
Eddie’s particular chum in the war was Russell Goodwin of Gransville, Ky., who is now located at Portsmouth, Ohio. He helped to bury Eddie on the battlefield, and may be here for the funeral.
Transcribed from The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer, Friday, July 22, 1921, pg five
Inscription
West Virginia PVT 1 CL 28 Inf 1 Div
Gravesite Details
from list recorded by Gary Timmons, 2002
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