In Memory Of

SOWDEN, LEONARD CLAUDE

Service Details
Age:
 33
Date of Birth:
 1911-01-19
Service No:
 106471V
Rank:
 Sergeant
Regiment:
 Witwatersrand Rifles/Regiment de la Rey, S.A. Forces
Date of Death:
 1944-06-12
Cause of Death:
 Died of pneumonia, in hospital. He was admitted on 26 May 1944.
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 II, A, 2.
Cemetery:
 CASERTA WAR CEMETERY
Country:
 Italy
Additional Information
Son of John Charles William and Alice M. Sowden, of Keetmanshoop, South West Africa; husband of the late Elizabth V. Sowden. Father of Gerald Creswell Sowden (who was nearly 7 yrs old when his father died). Born in Keetmanshoop. A plumber before enlistment.