See also

Family of Stephen Robin Ivatt Bowgen and Vera Grace Olive Poole

  • Husband:

  • Stephen Robin Ivatt Bowgen (1918-1943)

  • Wife:

  • Vera Grace Olive Poole (1920-1987)

  • Marriage:

  • Q4 1940

  • Harwich "Registration District", Essex, England1

Husband: Stephen Robin Ivatt Bowgen

  • Name:

  • Stephen Robin Ivatt Bowgen1,2

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Father:

  • -

  • Mother:

  • -

  • Birth:

  • Q3 1918

  • Dovercourt, Essex, England2,3

  • Census:

  • 19 Jun 1921 (age 2 yrs 10 mns)

  • 36 Victoria Street, Dovercourt, Essex, England3

  •  

  • son living in five rooms with his parents William and Ada, sisters Doris, Lilian and Eva, brothers Leslie, Clement and Herbert a boarder, and his widowed grandmother Sarah Ann Bowgen. Born in Dovercourt Essex

  • Prisoner of War:

  • Oct 1942 (age 24)

  • Malaya4

  •  

  • captured by the Japanese

  • Death:

  • 12 Jun 1943 (age 23)

  • Thailand5

  •  

  • initially reported as a Japanese prisoner of war

  • War Memorial:

  •  

  • Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, Saeng Chuto Road, Kanchanaburi, Kanchanaburi Province, Thailand5

  •  

  • private 7372857 of the Royal Army medical Corp 196 Field Ambulance died 12th June 1943, son of William James Bowgen and Emma Ada Bowgen of Dovercourt Essex

Wife: Vera Grace Olive Poole

  • Name:

  • Vera Grace Olive Poole6

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Father:

  • Philip Enney Poole (1876-1949)

  • Mother:

  • Florence Bessie Topple (1889-1980)

  • Occupation:

  •  

  • grocery assistant7

  • Birth:

  • 21 Nov 1920

  • Ipswich, Suffolk, England6,7,8,9

  •  

  • 1939 register says born on 21st November 1921

  • Census:

  • 19 Jun 1921 (age 7 mns)

  • 105 Harland Street, Ipswich, Suffolk, England8

  •  

  • daughter living in four rooms with her parents Philip and Florence, and brother Philip. Born in Ipswich Suffolk

  • Census:

  • 29 Sep 1939 (age 18)

  • 29 Kings Head Street, Harwich, Essex, England7

  •  

  • an unmarried grocery assistant living with her parents Philip and Florence, sister Gwendoline, and brothers Leslie and Donald. Born on 21st November 1921 and married a Bowgen and a Pickles at later dates

  • Death:

  • Mar 1987 (age 66)

  • Wensleydale "Registration District", North Yorkshire, England9

Sources

1.

England and Wales Marriage Index 1837 - 2005, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). Harwich 1940 quarter:4 volume:4a page:2806. Cit. Date: 6 April 2024.

2.

England and Wales Birth Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Tendring 1918 quarter:3 volume:4a page:1017. Cit. Date: 6 April 2024.

3.

England and Wales Census 1921, (on-line at www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive series:RG15 piece:9147 registration district:197 sub-district:3 enumeration district:5 schedule:250. Cit. Date: 6 April 2024.

4.

FindMyPast Prisoners of War 1715-1945 Transcription, (on-line at www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive reference:WO 361/2058 no:2837. Cit. Date: 9 April 2024.

5.

Commonwealth War Grave Commission, (on-line at www.cwgc.org). Kanchanaburi War Cemetery Coll. grave 6.B. 75-78. Cit. Date: 9 April 2024.

6.

England and Wales Birth Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Ipswich 1920 quarter:4 volume:4a page:1852. Cit. Date: 4 April 2024.

7.

UK 1939 Register, (on-line at www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive reference:RG101 piece: 1514E page:17 line:24 letter code:DBZA. Cit. Date: 5 April 2024.

8.

England and Wales Census 1921, (on-line at www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive series:RG15 piece:9415 registration district:213 sub-district:1 enumeration district:23 schedule:197. Cit. Date: 4 April 2024.

9.

England and Wales Death Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Wensleydale 1987 quarter:1 register:387 volume:2 page:2797. Cit. Date: 6 April 2024.