Service Details
Name:
 BOWKER
Given Name:
 JAMES ALBERT
Initials:
 J A
Service No:
 180666V
Rank:
 Corporal
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Regiment:
 Special Service Battalion, S.A. Forces
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Date of Death:
 1944-07-27
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Date of Birth:
 1921-03-12
Age:
 23
Cause of Death:
 Died of wounds, received by heavy shelling during the advance from Mercatale toward the River Greve. He received a shrapnel wound to the head on 27 July 1944 and died the same day
Additional
Information:
Son of Mr. George White and Eugene Alberta Bowker, of Louis Trichardt. Born in Kroonstad, Orange Free State. He was unmarried. His parents were divorced.
Commemoration
Country:
 Italy
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Cemetery:
 NAPLES WAR CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 I. D. 13.

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