Photo: Dorothy Hall
Photo: Dorothy Hall
He answered the call
Husband of Elizabeth Bowden, of 21, Queen St. Hetton-le-Hole, Co. Durham.
In Hetton Cemetery is a family headstone which includes:-
also their son
William Paisley
killed in action July 30th 1916
aged 24 years
also Sergt. W.H. Bowden
son in law
who died of wounds received
in action Aug. 3rd 1917
aged 37 years
The Durham Chronicle 30/5/1919 reports from the Parish magazine:-
Sergt. William Henry Bowden, 2nd Yorks., killed in action in France Aug. 3rd, 1917. His wife and two children live at 21 Queen Street.
See W. Paisley story.
William Henry Bowden is remembered at Eppleton on E65.01 as Bowdon and at Hetton le Hole on H125.06
