Trooper Walter Bower

Ancestor Details

Ancestor's Name: Walter Bower

Ancestor's date of birth: 12/09/1879

Ancestor's date of death: Date not supplied

Cause of Death: Not stated

Service Number: 337

Colony or State of enlistment: NSW, Place of Enlistment: Armidale

Unit: C Sqaudron, 5 Bn Australian Commonwealth Horse

Rank attained in Boer War: TPR, Date Effective: On enlistment

Highest Rank attained (if served after war): PTE, Date Effective: 26/11/1914

Murray Page: 191

Contingent: Third Australian

Ship: Manchester Merchant, Date of Sailing: 19/05/1902

Memorial details: War Memorial Armidale NSW

Awards/Decorations: British War Medal, Victory Medal, 1914-1915 Star.

Personal Characteristics: A labourer from Armidale NSW. Height: 170 cm, weight: 78 kg (1914).

Reasons to go and fight: Not stated

Details of service in war: Unit arrived after the peace was concluded.

Service and life after the Boer War: Returned to Australia 1 August 1902 on Manchester Merchant. Married Isabel, lived in Armidale. Served in WW1 as #1419 William Sims, he later declared that he was Walter Bower, 2 Bn AIF and 5 Machine Gun Bn WIA 4 May 1917 and 8 May 1915. He was at Gallipoli, and served in France.

Descendant Details

Name of Descendant: Roger Hayes, Tura Beach NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: Grandfather

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