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Name: Frank BOWEY
Casualty No.: Ranks: Private Initials: F Service No.: 76528
Date of Birth : - Place of Birth : Crawcrook, Ryton on Tyne, Co. Durham. Age at Death: 23
Unit: 20th Bn Manchester Regiment.
Former Unit(s): 39545 East Yorkshire Regiment.
Place Enlisted: Jarrow, Co. Durham.
Place of Residence: South Shields, Co. Durham.
Home Address:
Previous Address: Crawcrook Farm East, Ryton on Tyne, Co. Durham.
Civilian Employment:
How Died: Killed in action
Date of Death: Wednesday 23rd October 1918
Place of Death:
Battle/Campaign: Final Advance, Picardy, France, 17th - 25th October 1918. Battle of the Selle, 1918.
Locally Commemorated: No
UK Commemorated: -
Overseas Commemorated: -
Buried: Pommereuil British Cemetery, Nord, France.
Decoration and Medals: Military Medal.
Photographs: 0
Service Records: No
Death Notice/Obituary: Newcastle Evening Chronicle, 17th December 1918.
Family Details:
Only son of Elizabeth Jane Rutherford, of West Simonside Farm, Tyne Dock, South Shields. Grandson of the late Elizabeth Bowey, formerly of Crawcrook Farm, East, Ryton on Tyne, Co. Durham. Other family members; John, Isaac, Matthew, William, and Hannah.
Notes :
Sources Used: Commonwealth War Graves Commission Debt of Honour Register. Soldiers Died in the Great War.
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