Private Thomas Bowers

Army Number: 3387

Battalion: 8th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Worksop, Nottinghamshire and lived at 4 Eldon Place, Eldon Street, Newark, Nottinghamshire. He was accidentally killed, on 9th October 1914, aged 46, whilst guarding a bridge over the River Trent when he was hit by a train.

Buried: Newark-Upon-Trent Cemetery, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom. Plot N. C, Row “C.”, Grave 299.

Private Thomas Bowers is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
Newark Cemetery War Memorial, Newark, Nottinghamshire.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.