BOWMAN, Errol Jonathan
Service Number: | SX9304 |
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Enlisted: | 20 July 1940 |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 2 Company Australian Army Service Corps |
Born: | Peterborough, SA, 21 March 1905 |
Home Town: | Adelaide, South Australia |
Schooling: | Wilmington School |
Occupation: | Labourer - Waterworks Dept. |
Died: | Daw Park, SA, 28 February 1964, aged 58 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
Cemetery: |
Centennial Park Cemetery, South Australia RSL Walls |
Memorials: | Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial |
World War 2 Service
20 Jul 1940: | Involvement Private, SX9304 | |
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20 Jul 1940: | Enlisted Adelaide, SA | |
20 Jul 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, SX9304 | |
25 Jan 1946: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, SX9304, 2 Company Australian Army Service Corps |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of J & A BOWMAN of Royal Avenue, Adelaide, SA. Married with two children, Jack was educated at Wilmington School and played football for Wilmington and also for the Aldgate Club. In early life he worked int he S.A. Railways but then transeferred to the Waterworks Depoartment from where he enlisted in June 1940. He was sent to Alice Springs and then to Melbourne from where he left Australian in January 1942. His two brothers served in the Great War, harold with the 27th Battalion was killed in action and Roy returned after the Armistice. Errol was reported missing in Batavia.