Volunteers of Essendon and Flemington, 1914-1918

Members of the  7th Battalion, taken the day following the evacuation of the

Gallipoli Peninsula. Identified  top left to right: Lt Harold Barker); 44 Corporal

Frank Stanley Bowman; 49 Private Francis Matthews. Front left: 

51 Pte Charles Henry McGregor, holding a puppy; and 56 Pte Frank Walker. 

Australian War Memorial Collection. http://cas.awm.gov.au/item/P03318.013

Bowman F S    Pte    44    Frank Stanley        7 Inf Bn    20    Salesman    Single    C of E       

Address:    Essendon, Pascoe Vale Rd, 268  

Next of Kin:    Bowman, Daniel Thomas, snr, father, 268 Pascoe Vale Rd, Essendon   

Enlisted:    18 Aug 1914       

Embarked:     A20 Hororata 19 Oct 1914   

Awards:  MID

Bowman is Commissioned as a Lieutenant before the end of the war.

Relatives on Active Service:

Bowman D Pte 457 brother

Welsh, George Maldon, cousin, Northcote

In a dugout of the 7th Machine Gun Section at the Gallipoli Peninsula are, left to

right: 56 Private Frank Walker, of Bendigo, and 44 Pte Frank Stanley Bowman, of

Essendon.

Men of the 7 Inf Bn Machine Gun Section reconstructing Maxim guns, near

Mena Camp.  Cpl S Bowman is on the right.  Australian War Memorial Collection.

Photographer: Barker, Harold Arthur  http://cas.awm.gov.au/item/J05581

A dugout in Monash Valley used by the Machine Gun section of the 7th

Battalion, for belt filling. Identified from Left to right: S Bowman; H Stag;

and A Stephenson. (The latter was wounded half an hour later after the

photograph was taken). Photographer: Barker H A Pte 43       

http://www.awm.gov.au/collection/J05592

Firing the last Japanese bomb from a position near Brown's Dip,

Gallipoli, at 4.30 pm on the day of the evacuation.  Stan Bowman is

on the right. Photographer: Harold Barker.

Lemnos. December 1915. Group portrait of some of the members of 7th

Battalion Machine Gun Section on the day after their return from Gallipoli. 

Bowman is in the middle row, fourth from the left.  Photographer:

Barker H A Pte 43  http://www.awm.gov.au/collection/J05600

One Thousand Days with the AIF

Mentioned in this publication:

St Thomas' Parish Magazine January 1916.

Letter from W H Crapp published in Winner 29 Nov 1916

Essendon Gazette - St Thomas' Harriers

Article in Winners based on letter by Harry Manners, 21 Mar 1917

Letter from  H L Fynmore published in the Winner      8 Aug 1917.

St Thomas' Parish Magazine March 1915 p9

"The knowledge that out in Egypt,
preparing for the final struggle, are seven-
teen members of our branch, with many
members from other branches, and that other
members have sons there, and that many
other Church lads have also gone—that all
these have so nobly responded to the call of
their King and country, and are foremost in
this great enterprise, fills us with pride, and
calls us to unstinted prayer. The names of
the volunteers from the parish have been
placed in the Church porch. The members
of the branch on active service are :-F.
Hawker, J. R.Jacobson, R. K. Ransom,
E  A. Stones, H. C. Prunty, K. L. Walker,
J. Matthews, A. G. Dolan, S. F. Bowman,
H. A. Barker, S.J. Goulding, C. Morgan,
J V. Knights, A. T. Young, A. J. T.
Brown, A. Tytherleigh, E. J. Hopkins. To
these presentations and letters of commen-
dation were given prior to their departure".

Mentioned in Correspondence:

Barker H A Pte 43 Essendon Gazette 9 Sep 1915 

War Service Commemorated

“Send off to the Essendon Boys”

Essendon Town Hall A-F

Jacobson presentation                                                                                                       

MUIOOF Loyal Albert Lodge                               

St Thomas' Anglican Church                                           

Essendon Gazette Roll of Honour With the Colours           

Patriotic Concert, Essendon Town Hall, 1914  

Regimental Register