Celia's Rake Lane + burial.look up

[celia]

Phil
I spent a long time on section 20c this morning looking for the grave headstone and i am sorry to say i didn't find it
I walked the graves row by row because i didn't have a grave map.I found some 400's  higher or lower, but not the number i wanted,so it looks like it has fallen.I didn't have time to look on 16c because its a very large section.

Celia   

I did find the stone in the end        

[Certacito]

Don't tell me they have been knocking over war grave stones now? Is nothing sacred?

[celia]

I cant be certain it wasn't there,but i will wait for a responce on the topic from Phil,before i do any more to pinpoint the grave

Celia

[englandphil]

If Celia can't, I can probably get to these and take photographs. Let me know.

Alan

Alan, firstly sorry for the delay in replying, but having some serious internet issues.  Received your email, and have updated my records

Thanks once again

Phil

[englandphil]

Phil
I spent a long time on section 20c this morning looking for the grave headstone and i am sorry to say i didn't find it
I walked the graves row by row because i didn't have a grave map.I found some 400's  higher or lower, but not the number i wanted,so it looks like it has fallen.I didn't have time to look on 16c because its a very large section.

Celia

Celia, as with a response to Alan, sorry for the delay.  The only details that I have are those from the CWGC website, and are the ones I posted.  Sorry that you spent so much time for nothing, but it was the only info that I had.

Thanks again

Phil

[celia]

Phil
I ha vent given up yet,  but need a different map because the sections are so big, and the numbers are not in order Mainly i think because there are so many spaces.I will get back to you if i can locate the headstone. Then look for the second one.

Celia

[celia]

Phil
after some more research today I have found that the stone  for George bowker that you gave me has fallen along with others.I don't think they were vandalized though, some fall because they are not buried deep enough so with heavy rainfalls over the years they fall over in the soggy ground.
I do have some info for you but will P.M it to you later
I haven't compleated this info yet, but on  section 20c there is another Bowker burial are they connected?
In Brief: George Bowker died 3rd October 1956 age 63
& Sgt Thomas George Bowker Royal Artillery died 27Th May 1942 age 29

Celia

[celia]

Phil I am happy to say i have now found the Stone on sec 20c
the reason i didn't find it earlier this week  is because I was looking for a grave stone not a war grave stone.Having found the exact place of the stone this morning in a short time.I realized it was a war memorial stone so probably ignored it I thought the white ones were family memorial stones. Anyway I have taken some photos including the small slab below it.So if you P.M me your email i will send you the photos plus the other info I have taken.
Regards Miss Dimday Aka Celia

[englandphil]

Morning Celia, the George Bowker that I am looking for is buried in Grave 418 in Section 20C, and was originally enlisted with the South Lancashire Regiment, before transferring to the Durham Light Infantry, and sadly died just over a month after the end of the war in Europe, most probably due to wounds sustained.

Name: BOWKER, GEORGE
Initials: G
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lance Serjeant
Regiment/Service: Durham Light Infantry
Unit Text: 6th Bn.
Age: 30
Date of Death: 26/06/1945
Service No: 3657991
Additional information: Son of Thomas P. Bowker and Ellen Bowker, of Wallasey; husband of Susan Bowker, of Wallasey.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Sec. 20.C. Grave 418.
Cemetery: WALLASEY (RAKE LANE) CEMETERY

As you say, there is also a second George Bowker, buried at Rake Lane, and also in Sect 20C.  This GB was also the son of A GB, so the GB who you have found for 1956 may well have been is father.

Name: BOWKER, GEORGE
Initials: G
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Serjeant
Regiment/Service: Royal Artillery
Unit Text: 301 Bty., 552 Coast Regt.
Age: 29
Date of Death: 27/05/1942
Service No: 796220
Additional information: Son of George and Amy Bowker, of Wallasey; husband of Joan Bowker.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Sec. 20.C. Grave 627.
Cemetery: WALLASEY (RAKE LANE) CEMETERY

Ive also Pm’d you with email address

Thanks for your help Celia, and if you have any info on any of the men in my original list I would only be too glad to receive it.

Phil