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Private JOHN WILLIAM BOWIE

Service Number: 276375
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Manchester Regiment

1st/7th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 08 December 1917

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

GORRE BRITISH AND INDIAN CEMETERY

V. A. 19.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Alexander and Mary Ann Bowie, of Manchester; husband of Mary Ann Bowie, of 137, Bradford Rd., Manchester.
  • Personal Inscription GONE FROM OUR HOME BUT NOT FROM OUR HEARTS
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Buried or commemorated at

GORRE BRITISH AND INDIAN CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 942
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