New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

5th Reinforcements

Rank

Sapper

Serial

37724

About

Born in New Zealand

26 October 1895

Parents

Mother

Emily Bowmar

Father

John Bowmar

Residence

Hometown

Kaitangata

Work

Occupation

Trucker

Employer

D. Shaw

Personal Life

Marital Status

Married

Wife

Mary Bowmar

14th South Otago Regiment

New Zealand

World War I (1914-1918)

British War Medal

Victory Medal

Died at the age of 65

17 November 1960

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

New Zealand Archives Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, AABK 18805 W5520 104/0016840, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Vol.III, Roll No.62, Government Printer, Wellington, 1914-1919, p. 39.

Anthony Byledbal, “Alfred Bowmar (1895-1960)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/62