Participant Info

Surname

Gowans

First Name

William

Initial

J

Service Number

168

Rank

private

Unit Served

4th Battalion

Service Record

Egypt, Gallipoli

Enlistment Date

1914

Enlistment Month

August 17

Embarkation Year

1914

Embarkation Month

October 20

Date of Death

Month of Death

Death Category

All Australia Memorial Reference

Australia's Fighting Families chapter, NSW section S, notes page 40, image page 41

Also Known As

Spousal

Spousal Address

Spouse City

Spouse State

Parental Name

William P. and Eliza Gowans

Parental Address

"Mena", Eurella Street, Burwood

Parental City

Sydney

Parental State

NSW

Notes

born at Pyrmont, October 16, 1890, educated Annandale and Forest Lodge Public Schools, engineer, enlisted August 1914, embarked October 1914. War service: Egypt, Gallipoli (landing, wounded, April 26, 1915), invalided to No 2 General Hospital, Egypt, retu