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Major CECIL LEANDER JOHN BOWEN

Service Number: 10398
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Irish Guards

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 15 May 1940

Age 44 years old

Buried or commemorated at

NARVIK NEW CEMETERY

XI. K. 3.

Norway

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of George and Dorothy Bowen; husband of Mary Josephine Bowen, of Wimbledon, Surrey.
  • Personal Inscription I HAVE FOUGHT A GOOD FIGHT I HAVE FINISHED MY COURSE I HAVE KEPT THE FAITH
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Buried or commemorated at

NARVIK NEW CEMETERY
Norway
Number of casualties: 34
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