Lancelot Rex Bowman

Forenames

Lancelot Rex AWMM

Surname

Bowman AWMM

Also known as

• Rex AWMM
• L. R. Bowman AWMM

Service number

Vietnam 459358 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Birth

4 Dec 1930 Public Source

Relationship status

1963 AWMM Married/Malaya AWMM
Male child AWMM

War

• Vietnam War, 1961-1975 AWMM
• Malaya, 1960-1964 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

Vietnam 459358 AWMM

Medals and Awards

• New Zealand Operational Service Medal AWMM
• Vietnam Medal AWMM
• New Zealand General Service Medal 1992 (Warlike) (Vietnam clasp) AWMM

Embarkation details

• Malaya Sergeant/Military AWMM New Zealand Regiment, 1 Battalion, Headquarters AWMM British Commonwealth Far East Strategic Reserve AWMM
• Vietnam Staff Sergeant Ministry for Culture and Heritage 6th Royal Australian Regiment / New Zealand (ANZAC) Battalion, Victor 4 Company (1RNZIR) AWMM 1st Australian Task Force AWMM
  2nd Embarkation AWMM

Last rank

Malaya 1963 1NZIR Repatriation Lists R22435600 Corporal/Military 1NZIR Repatriation Lists R22435600
New Zealand Infantry Regiment, 1st Battalion 1NZIR Repatriation Lists R22435600

Rex was a Malayan veteran who returned to Terendak, Malaysia in 1968. He was Company Quarter Master Sergeant for V4 Company from May 1969 to May 1970. He died at Tauranga in 1997 and is buried in Pyes Pa Cemetery, RSA section, Row 1, plot 169. AWMM

Death

29 Aug 1997 Ministry for Culture and Heritage
Age  66 AWMM

Cemetery

Pyes Pa Cemetery, Tauranga, Bay of Plenty AWMM Row 1, New RSA Block, AWMM

Related objects

External links

• New Zealand's Vietnam War Veterans. Personal page
  http://www.vietnamwar.govt.nz/veteran/ssgt-lr-bowman
  Sources Used
• Memories of New Zealand and the Vietnam War. New Zealand History online website.
  http://www.vietnamwar.govt.nz/
  Further Reference
• Australia's Vietnam War
  https://web.archive.org/web/20241003003021/https://vietnam.unsw.adfa.edu.au/
  Further Reference
• Tauranga City Council Cemetery Record
  http://www.tauranga.govt.nz/council/services/cemeteries/cemeteries-search/cemeteries-detail/tctl/523_?plotid=PYES%20PA*B10891
  Further Reference
• The New Zealand Malaya Veterans Association.
  http://www.malayavets.co.nz/
  Further Reference

References

• Subritsky, M. (Ed). (1995). The Vietnam scrapbook: The second ANZAC adventure. Papakura, N.Z.: Three Feathers Publishing Co.
• Hall, C. (2014). No front line : inside stories of New Zealand's Vietnam War. Auckland, New Zealand : Penguin Books.
• This record was created from data kindly provided by the New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage.
• Gurr, Robert M. (1995). Voices from a border war : a history of 1 Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment, 1963 to 1965. Melbourne, Vic.: Robert Gurr.
  Listed as Temporary Sergeant NZ Regiment, 1 Battalion. But did not serve in Borneo.
• Pugsley, C. (2003). From emergency to confrontation: the New Zealand armed forces in Southeast Asia, 1949-1966. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.
• H.E. Chamberlain, Nominal Roll – 1 RNZIR, 8 May 1964, in Gurr, Robert. (2009). Voices from a border war: Borneo 1963-1965. 2nd Edition. Christchurch, N.Z.: Wilson Scott Publishing, pp.139-150
• Information kindly provided by family
• 1NZR Roll 1961-1963 - Bill Russell, Malayan Veterans Association Scrapbook – 40th Anniversary edition.
• Clamp, B., Clamp, D., & 1st Battalion the New Zealand Regiment (1957-59) Association. (2007). 1st battalion the New Zealand regiment (1957-59) association 50th anniversary: the first of the first. B. Clamp.
• DECEASED, 1 NZ Regiment, 1961-63 – Internet resource.
• 1NZR Roll 1961-1963 - Bill Russell, Malayan Veterans Association Scrapbook – 40th Anniversary edition.
• This record was partially created from Cemetery research completed by Carol Foster (2021).
• Organisation - New Zealand Army Force - FARELF [Far East Land Forces] - Organisation and formation - [Malaya] [Malaya 1960-1964 1NZIR Repatriation Lists]. Archives New Zealand Wellington, AAYS 8638 AD1/1120 (R22435552)
  List is intended to post personnel of 1NZ Regt on their retrun to NZ with a range of factors in mind.
• McGibbon, I.C. (2010). New Zealand's Vietnam War: a history of combat, commitment and controversy. Auckland, N.Z.: Exisle