Personal Number: Rank: Major Name: C L J BOWEN Unit: 1 Irish Guards GSM & Clasp: GSM, Palestine Clasp 1936 - 1939 TNA Reference: WO 100/503
1940, Before Embarkation for Norway From left, facing, Captain BA O'NEILL, Lieutenant-Colonel WD FAULKNER, Major CLJ BOWEN, GRAYSON
Casualty Major BOWEN, CECIL LEANDER JOHN Service Number 10398 Died 15/05/1940 Aged 44 1st Bn. Irish Guards Son of George and Dorothy Bowen; husband of Mary Josephine Bowen, of Wimbledon, Surrey. INSCRIPTION: I HAVE FOUGHT A GOOD FIGHT I HAVE FINISHED MY COURSE I HAVE KEPT THE FAITH Buried at NARVIK NEW CEMETERY Location: Norway Cemetery/memorial reference: XI. K. 3.
Personal Number: 10398 Rank: Major Name: Cecil Leander John BOWEN Unit: Irish Guards London Gazette : 29 August 1922 https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/32742/supplement/6297/data.pdf INFANTRY King's Own R.—Lt. C. L. J. Bowen (since trarisfd. to I. G'ds.) is restd. to the estabt. 25th June 1922. London Gazette : 3 March 1925 https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/33026/page/1521/data.pdf GUARDS DEPOT. Lt. C. L. J. Bowen, I. G'ds., to be Adjt., vice Capt. G. M. Cornish, M.C., Gren. G'ds. 1st Mar. 1925. London Gazette : 1 March 1927 https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/33253/page/1359/data.pdf FOOT GUARDS. Guards Depot—Capt. O. W. D. Smith, Gren. G'ds., to be Adjt., vice Lt. C. L. J. Bowen, I. G'ds. 1st Mar. 1927. London Gazette : 8 March 1927 https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/33255/page/1523/data.pdf FOOT GUARDS. I. G'ds.— Lt. C. L. J. Bowen is restd. to the estabt. 1st Mar. 1927. London Gazette : 31 July 1936 https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/34310/page/4885/data.pdf FOOT GUARDS I. G'ds.— Capt. C. L. J. Bowen to be Maj. 20th July 1936:
