Private Sydney George Bowden

Army Number: 94073 (formerly 2877  H. F. Company Royal Engineers)

Battalion: 12th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived at Eastbourne, Sussex. Son of John and Anne Harris Bowden, of 39, Green Street, Eastbourne. He was an apprentice Printer prior to enlisting at Eastbourne. He was killed in action, 22nd March 1918, age 21 whilst in the line at Villercholles, France. 

Commemorated : Pozieres Memorial, France. Panel 52 to 54.

Private Sydney George Bowden is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
Eastbourne Town Hall War Memorial, Eastbourne, Sussex.

His brother Private Harry Victor Bowden, 9th Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment, also fell in the Great War.