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Born: 23 May 1875
Died: 5 March 1949
Wounded in action on 15 May 1917 during the Second Battle of Bullecourt when there was a German counter-attack on part of the captured Hindenburg Line near Riencourt being defended by his 54th Battalion.
A linotype operator with the Orange Leader prior to enlisting.
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- Bowers William Henry : SERN DEPOT 2123 86063 : POB Melbourne VIC : POE Dubbo NSW : NOK F Bowers Robert Martin (webpage)
- Studio portrait of five soldiers from the 4th Reinforcements of the 54th Battalion. Identified, left to right, back row: Bowers, Brown, Roe [believed to be 2132 William Henry Bowers, 2136 Ellis Arthur Hirst Brown, 2295 John Henry Roe]. Front row: ... (webpage)
- William Henry Bowers (photograph)
- First World War Embarkation Rolls: William Henry Bowers (webpage)
- Enlistment (newspaper article)
- Personal. [Letter from England] (newspaper article)
- CASUALTY LIST. NEW SOUTH WALES. WOUNDED. (newspaper article)
- PRIVATE W. H. BOWERS. (newspaper article)
- GREAT SPORT OF HIS LIFE. (newspaper article)
- SOLDIER'S LETTER. NORTHERN FRANCE. AN ORANGEITE'S EXPERIENCES. THE HORRORS OF WAR. (newspaper article)
- PERSONAL. [Return to Australia] (newspaper article)
- OUR SOLDIERS. (newspaper article)
- Death Notice (newspaper article)
- OBITUARY MR. W. H. BOWERS [1] (newspaper article)
- OBITUARY Mr W. H BOWERS [2] (newspaper article)
- Commemorations
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- BOWERS W. H. on the South Face of the Mosman War Memorial
- Bowers, W.H. on the St Luke's Anglican Church Mosman memorial panels