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  • BOWDEN
  • EL
  • EDWIN LEONARD
  • Cheltenham
  • Gloucestershire, England
  • Ponsonby, New Zealand
  • Son of John Henry and Elizabeth Bowden, of Cheltenham, Gloucester, England.
  • Provision dealer

Military service

  • 4 April 1916, Trentham
  • 18752
  • Sapper
  • 5th Bn. New Zealand Light Railways Operating Service
  • New Zealand Division
  • N.Z.E.F.
  • Promoted Lance Corporal in June 1916; embarked for England 26 July 1916, Wellington; embarkation Unit 15th Reinforcements Auckland Infantry Battalion, A Company ; to France 20 October 1916 ; accidental foot injury February 1917; gunshot wounds shoulder and wrist June 1917; trench fever and influenza at the end of June 1917; transferred to n°5 Railways Section with rank of sapper, december 1917, back to France;

Death

  • 13 January, accident
  • Died of accidental injuries, fractured right leg and abrasion arms, in n°3 Can CCS
  • 17 January 1918
  • 23
  • XXVI - CC - 9A

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