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Sapper R BOWGEN

Service Number: 266630
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

263rd Railway Coy.

Date of Death

Died 20 May 1918

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CROUY BRITISH CEMETERY, CROUY-SUR-SOMME

II. C. 7.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Arthur and Ellen Bowgen, of Coveney, nr. Ely, Cambs.
  • Personal Inscription GREATER LOVE HAS NO MAN THAN HE WHO LAYS DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS
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Buried or commemorated at

CROUY BRITISH CEMETERY, CROUY-SUR-SOMME
Somme France
Number of casualties: 783
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