GOWER, Owen Thomas
| Service Number: | 5741 |
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| Enlisted: | 1 May 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Sapper |
| Last Unit: | 3rd Tunnelling Company (inc. 6th Tunnelling Company) |
| Born: | Port Waratah, New South Wales, Australia, 28 August 1873 |
| Home Town: | Newcastle, Hunter Region, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Storeman |
| Died: | Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, 30 November 1947, aged 74 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW CONGREGATIONAL-1ASE. 10. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 1 May 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Sapper, 5741, Tunnelling Companies | |
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| 29 Jun 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Sapper, 3rd Tunnelling Company (inc. 6th Tunnelling Company) | |
| 25 Oct 1916: | Involvement Sapper, 5741, Tunnelling Companies, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: '' | |
| 25 Oct 1916: | Embarked Sapper, 5741, Tunnelling Companies, HMAT Ulysses, Melbourne | |
| 8 Oct 1918: | Wounded AIF WW1, Sapper, 5741, 3rd Tunnelling Company (inc. 6th Tunnelling Company), "The Last Hundred Days", Gassed | |
| 16 May 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Sapper, 5741, 3rd Tunnelling Company (inc. 6th Tunnelling Company), 2nd MD |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
73 years ago today, on the Tuesday afternoon of the 2nd December 1947, Sapper Owen Thomas Gower, 3rd Australian Tunnelling Company (Reg No-5741), storeman from Morgan Street, Newcastle, New South Wales and 13A Bruce Street, Newcastle, N.S.W. and Stockton, N.S.W. and 110 King Street, Newcastle, N.S.W. and 67 Darby Street, Newcastle, N.S.W., was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 74. CONGREGATIONAL-1ASE. 10.
Born at Port Waratah, New South Wales on the 28th August 1873 to Arthur (died 1888) and Mary (died 1886) Gower nee Thomas; husband of Mary C Gower nee Williams (married 1920, Wickham, N.S.W., died 1922, sleeping in an unmarked grave, METHODIST 1 (WESLEYAN) D NW. 17.), Owen enlisted April 1916 with the Tunnelling Company, November Reinforcements at Newcastle, N.S.W.
Wounded in action - 8.10.1918 (gassed), Owen was invalided home May 1919, being discharged on the 24th June 1919.
I have not located Mr Gower’s name inscribed on any known War Memorial or Roll of Honour.
Owen’s name unfortunately has not been inscribed on the family headstone, so February 2018 I placed a cross adorned with poppies on the gravesite, taken a photo of the grave and uploaded the photo onto the Northern Cemetery website as a permanent record of his service.
See Tunnellers - http://www.tunnellers.net/
Lest We Forget.
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