In Memory Of
BOWKER, JAMES ALBERT
Service Details
Age:
23
Date of Birth:
1921-03-12
Service No:
180666V
Rank:
Corporal
Regiment:
Special Service Battalion, S.A. Forces
Date of Death:
1944-07-27
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
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
I. D. 13.
Cemetery:
NAPLES WAR CEMETERY
Country:
Italy
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.
