| Regimental number | 2583 |
| Place of birth | Benalla, Victoria |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
| Occupation | Driver |
| Address | Barellan, New South Wales |
| Marital status | Single |
| Age at embarkation | 29 |
| Next of kin | Father, M Bowe, Barellan, New South Wales |
| Enlistment date | |
| Date of enlistment from Nominal Roll | |
| Rank on enlistment | Private |
| Unit name | 2nd Battalion, 8th Reinforcement |
| AWM Embarkation Roll number | 23/19/2 |
| Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board HMAT A54 Runic on |
| Rank from Nominal Roll | Private |
| Unit from Nominal Roll | 2nd Battalion |
| Fate | Killed in Action |
| Date of death | |
| Age at death | 33 |
| Age at death from cemetery records | 33 |
| Place of burial | No known grave |
| Commemoration details | The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 7), Belgium The Menin Gate Memorial (so named because the road led to the town of Menin) was constructed on the site of a gateway in the eastern walls of the old Flemish town of Ypres, Belgium, where hundreds of thousands of allied troops passed on their way to the front, the Ypres salient, the site from April 1915 to the end of the war of some of the fiercest fighting of the war. The Memorial was conceived as a monument to the 350,000 men of the British Empire who fought in the campaign. Inside the arch, on tablets of Portland stone, are inscribed the names of 56,000 men, including 6,178 Australians, who served in the Ypres campaign and who have no known grave. The opening of the Menin Gate Memorial on 24 July 1927 so moved the Australian artist Will Longstaff that he painted 'The Menin Gate at Midnight', which portrays a ghostly army of the dead marching past the Menin Gate. The painting now hangs in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, at the entrance of which are two medieval stone lions presented to the Memorial by the City of Ypres in 1936. Since the 1930s, with the brief interval of the German occupation in the Second World War, the City of Ypres has conducted a ceremony at the Memorial at dusk each evening to commemorate those who died in the Ypres campaign. |
| Panel number, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial | 31 |
| Miscellaneous information from cemetery records | Parents: Martin and the late Ann BOWE, Ardlethan, New South Wales |
| Other details |
War service: Egypt, Gallipoli, Western Front Joined 2nd Bn at Gallipoli, 31 October 1915. Disembarked Alexandria, 28 December 1915 (general Gallipoli evacuation). Found guilty of breaking camp and being absent without leave, 8.15 am, 25 January, to 6.30 am, 29 January 1916: awarded 14 days' Field Punishment No. 2 and forfeiture of 5 days' pay. Proceeded from Alexandria to join the British Expeditionary Force, 22 March 1916; disembarked Marseilles, 28 March 1916. On leave to England, 22 December 1916; rejoined Bn, 9 January 1917. On command, Divisional School, 5 February 1917; rejoined Bn, 28 February 1917. Admitted to 7th Field Ambulance, 1 April 1917; to 51st General Hospital, 6 April 1917; discharged to duty, 22 April 1917; total period of treatment for venereal disease: 22 days. Admitted to 20th General Hospital, Etaples, 26 April 1917; to 39th General Hospital, Havre, 29 May 1917; discharged to duty, 5 June 1917; total period of treatment for venereal disease: 8 days. Rejoined Bn, 10 June 1917. Killed in action, Belgium, 7 November 1917. Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal |
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