New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

6th Reinforcements

Rank

Sapper

Serial

60418

About

Born in Ireland

19 September 1885

Parents

Mother

Margaret Bowden

Father

Richard Bowden

Settled in New Zealand

1908

Work

Occupation

Lighterman

Personal Life

Marital Status

Single

World War I (1914-1918)

British War Medal

Victory Medal

Died at the age of 72

2 June 1958

Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira: Online Cenotaph He Toa Taumata Rau.

New Zealand Archives Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, AABK 188805 W5520 102/0016643, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Vol.III, Roll No.69, Government Printer, Wellington, 1914-1919, p. 39.

Anthony Byledbal, “James Bowden (1885-1958)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/59