Joseph Bower
Service number
4860204
Military unit
1st Bn Welch Regiment
Address
Unknown
Date of birth
01 May 1919
Date of death
08 Oct 1944 (25 years old)
Place of birth
Mansfield, Nottinghamshire
Employment, education or hobbies
On the 1939 England & Wales Register he is recrded as being a Fruitier on his own account.
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Family history
Son of Joseph and Eliza Bower, of 14 bancroft Lane, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire.
Eliza died in 1940 and Joseph snr in early 1944.
He came from a very large family: Amy (1904), Emma (1906), John (1907), Henry (1909), Harold (1911), James (1913), Beatrice 91915), Eliza (1917) and Ivy (1921).
Military history
Died of wounds in Italy.
Extra information
Mansfield Chronicle Advertiser: 11/10/1945 Roll of Honour
Bower: Treasured memories of my dear brother, Pte Joseph Bower 1st Welsh Regt, died of wounds in Italy October 8th 1944. Jim (S.E.A.C) and Jessie
Photographs
No photos