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30/12/2015 The CWGC record Private Joseph Bowman as the son of Joseph and Bessie Bowman, of Drumrainey, Magherafelt, Co. Derry. It also records that he was born at Dalmuir, Dunbartonshire.
30/12/2015 Joseph’s younger brother Andrew also died in the war. He too served with the Gordon Highlanders. Private Andrew Bowman died a year later on 4th May 1918, aged 19.
30/12/2015 Private Joseph Bowman is buried in Etaples Military Cemetery, France.
30/12/2015 Private Joseph Bowman was serving with the 1/6 Battalion of the Gordon Highlanders when he died on 14th April 1917. He was 21 years old.
30/12/2015 Joseph’s parents moved to Magherafelt after 1911. There is no record of them in the 1911 Irish Census.
30/12/2015 Joseph Bowman was the son of Joseph and Bessie Bowman. He was born about 1896 in Dalmuir, Dunbartonshire, Scotland.
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