Private John Bowe

Service number 22/381

Home: Angate Street, East End, Wolsingham
Enlisted: 1 January 1916, Bishop Auckland (aged 33)
Regiment: Durham Light Infantry
Battalion / unit: 16th Battalion
Conflict: First World War
War record: Yes
Next of kin: Son of Dennis & Elizabeth Bowe of East End, Wolsingham

Notes

Occupation on enlistment - Labourer at Limestone Quarry - Discharged 13th July 1916 for not likely to become an efficient soldier due to being unable to do any work after a fall from a horse 10 years age causing his left arm to be broken and never repaired fully - Absent without leave on several occasions

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