BOWDEN, EDWARD RATCLIFFE, Lieutenant, 6th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers (T.F.), son of Thomas Bowden, of Sheriff Mount, Gateshead Fell, co. Durham, J.P., head of the firm of Thomas Bowden, Sons & Nephew, of Newcastle-on-Tyne and Manchester, Chartered Accountants; b. 28 April, 1889; educated Corchester Preparatory School, Sedbergh, and Pembroke College, Cambridge (B.A.), was a member of the O.T.C. at Cambridge, and received a commission in the Northumberland Fusiliers 1910, being promoted Lieutenant 25 Dec. 1912. He died of wounds received in the action at Ypres, 28 April, 1915, and was buried at Abbeville; unmarried.
BOWDEN, EDWARD RATCLIFFE, Lieutenant, 6th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers (T.F.), son of Thomas Bowden, of Sheriff Mount, Gateshead Fell, co. Durham, J.P., head of the firm of Thomas Bowden, Sons & Nephew, of Newcastle-on-Tyne and Manchester, Chartered Accountants; b. 28 April, 1889; educated Corchester Preparatory School, Sedbergh, and Pembroke College, Cambridge (B.A.), was a member of the O.T.C. at Cambridge, and received a commission in the Northumberland Fusiliers 1910, being promoted Lieutenant 25 Dec. 1912. He died of wounds received in the action at Ypres, 28 April, 1915, and was buried at Abbeville; unmarried.
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Lieutenant, C Company, 6th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. Died of wounds received at St. Julien. Son of Thomas and Maggie Elizabeth Bowden, of Gateshead, Co. Durham. Age 26.
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