Samuel Thomas BOWERING

Badge Number: 75880, Sub Branch: Millicent
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BOWERING, Samuel Thomas

Service Number: 7370
Enlisted: 19 October 1916, Enlisted at Millicent, SA
Last Rank: Sapper
Last Unit: Tunnelling Companies
Born: Millicent, Wattle Range - South Australia, Australia, 25 August 1892
Home Town: Millicent, Wattle Range, South Australia
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Labourer
Died: Millicent, Wattle Range - South Australia, Australia, 10 August 1972, aged 79 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery: Not yet discovered
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World War 1 Service

19 Oct 1916: Enlisted AIF WW1, Sapper, 7370, Tunnelling Companies, Enlisted at Millicent, SA
20 Oct 1916: Enlisted
4 Aug 1917: Involvement Sapper, 7370, Tunnelling Companies, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Themistocles embarkation_ship_number: A32 public_note: ''
4 Aug 1917: Embarked Sapper, 7370, Tunnelling Companies, HMAT Themistocles, Melbourne
11 Nov 1918: Involvement Sapper, 7370
30 Aug 1919: Discharged AIF WW1, Sapper, 7370, Tunnelling Companies

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Biography contributed by Carol Foster

Son of John Bowering and Fanny Secilia (nee Meyer) Bowering of Millicent, SA; brother of Richard Ellis Bowering, Annie Bowering, John Bowering, Selena Mary Bowering, William Walter Bowering, Benjamin Bowering, Philip James Bowering, Elizabeth Millicent Bowering, Jonathan England Bowering, George Alfred Bowering, Fanny Ida Bowering, Emily Ada Bowering, Hilda Maria Bowering, Mary Marchant Bowering, Rosa Eliza Bowering, Roland Bowering and Elsie Amelia Bowering

15 June 1919 - commenced return to Australia on board Swakopmund disembaking in Adelaide on 30 July 1919

Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal

On 4 November 1922 Samuel married Eileen Mary Burdett in the Methodist Parsonage, Millicent, SA

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