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BOWMAN, Alexander Duncan
(Service number 74375)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank

Birth

Date	02/11/1897	Place of Birth	Temuka

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	C/o P. O., Temuka
Occupation	Driver
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Mr A. BOWMAN (father), Okaiawa P. O., Taranaki
Religion	Presbyterian
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

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Military Awards

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No information

Prisoner of War Information

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Discharge

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Post-war Occupations

Farm manager

Death

Date	22 August 1973	Age	75 years
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Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Temuka Cemetery
Memorial Reference	General Section, Row 20, Block 715
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Alexander Duncan Bowman was the son of Alexander and Mary Ellen (née McCallum) Bowman. He was educated at Albury School. Late in 1917 he was selected by lot from the First Division and called up. Alex married Edna Gladys Niles in 1919. After Edna's death in 1953, he married Flora.

Sources

Timaru Herald, 4 December 1917 (Papers Past) [08 August 2015]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [21 December 2019]; School Admission records (South Canterbury Branch NZSG) [22 December 2019]; Temuka Cemetery headstone images (Timaru District Council) [22 December 2019]

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Researched and Written by

Teresa Scott, SC branch NZSG

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