Forenames

Robert Christopher Brook AWMM

Surname

Bowen AWMM

Service number

WWI 65333 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Birth

8 Aug 1892 AWMM

Date of birth

8 August 1892

Public - Peter - Researcher - 6 September 2017 - Military personnel files

Place of birth

Wellington

Public - Peter - Researcher - 6 September 2017 - Military personnel files

Next of kin

Mrs Kate Bowen (mother), 65 Leraud Street, Wellington South, New Zealand AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 65333 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM Sheep farmer/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 31 Dec 1917-25 Feb 1918 AWMM
HMNZT 99 AWMM Vessel was Athenic AWMM Private AWMM 33rd Reinforcements, Wellington Infantry Regiment, B Company AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Medical notes

Died of wounds, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Private AWMM
Wellington Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion AWMM

Robert Bowen was the son of Robert G. and Kate Bowen, of 65, Leraud St., Wellington, New Zealand.

His brother, Frederick William Bowen, was also killed in World War 1. AWMM

Death

29 Sept 1918 AWMM
Age  25 AWMM

Cause of death

Died of wounds AWMM

Cemetery

Ruyaulcourt Military Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, France AWMM N. 27. AWMM

Memorial name

Tapawera war memorial

Public - Peter - Researcher - 6 September 2017 - audit of regional war memorials combined with local research

Related objects

Related Serviceperson

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22277814
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/266831/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/266831
  Further Reference

References

• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1918). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume III. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  76: 7
• Chronicles of the N.Z.E.F.: Records of Matters Concerning the Troops and Gazette of Patriotic Effort [London, England] : New Zealand War Contingent Association, [1916-1919]
  Chronicles of the NZEF, 6 December 1918, page 231
• The Fields of Remembrance Trust: Brothers Field, Auckland Museum (Armistice, 2018)
• HMNZT 99 - Te huia : the magazine of the 33rd Reinforcement. Printed and published by the Argus Printing Company for the Executive Committee of "Te Huia," 33rd Reinforcements, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1918.