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H Bower
« on: Tuesday 01 October 19 17:37 BST (UK) »


Commonwealth War Graves Commission would like to contact relatives of Pvt H Bower 238058 of Royal Welch Fusiliers who died 16/6/1920/  Pvt Bower is buried Wilmslow Cemetery.

If you could help CWGC they would love to hear from you.

The private memorial marking the grave of Pvt Bower no longer provides adequate commemoration.  The Commission are in the process of of producing a headstone to mark his grave.


https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2748262/bower,-/#&gid=null&pid=1


FIND A GRAVE

Pvt Harold Bower born 1897 Wilmslow, Cheshire East Unitary Authority (Cheshire), Cheshire died 16 June 1920 Ruthin, Denbighshire, Wales.

Son of Samuel and Aba Bower.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/143148764

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Re: H Bower
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 01 October 19 17:40 BST (UK) »


1901 census Wilmslow Cheshire.

RG13 Piece 3319 Folio 6 Page 3

Samuel Bower   35 Abatha Bower   27
Harold Bower   3 Arthur W Bower   1

1911 census free index -

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XW39-2LL

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« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 01 October 19 17:44 BST (UK) »

Brother Arthur Wesley Bower born 1900 married 4 August 1930 Newton Heath, St Wilfrid, Manchester,  to Annie Hicklin.

Arthur Wesley Bower born 25 September 1899 - Jul-Aug-Sep - Manchester - 10e 179

Perhaps one male birth in 1936 Manchester N.    - 8d   811

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Re: H Bower
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 01 October 19 18:35 BST (UK) »
Brother Samuel Walter Bower married Doris Irene Graves 2 August 1930 - Withington, St Paul, Lancashire.

There is a death Samuel Walter Bower 1904 died 1978 Lewes East Sussex.  18/1464

Two male births for Bower/Graves - Manchester - September 1934 and September 1937.

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Re: H Bower
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 01 October 19 20:53 BST (UK) »
Sandra,
I might be able to help you, even if only indirectly. As there might be issues of privacy, I've PM'd you.
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Re: H Bower
« Reply #5 on: Wednesday 02 October 19 11:22 BST (UK) »
It might also be worth your while posting on the Flintshire, Denbighshire and Sussex boards. See my PMs.
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