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Name: BOWEN, Cuthbert Edward Latimer (Lieut.)
Nee: son of Canon Thomas James Bowen of Clifton, Bristol
Birth Date: 23.9.1881 Ty-ar-y-Graig, Swansea
Death Date: 1.12.1914 Utendi, Tanganyika, killed in action
First Date: 1905
Last Date: 1914
Profession: Superintendent of Police in Nairobi
Area: Nairobi, Mombasa
Married: In newly built Anglican Church of St. Stephen in Nairobi 25 May 1907 Alice May Swift b. 20 Feb 1880 Hanley, Staffs., of Chilton Polden, Bridgwater, d. 6 June 1968 Somerset (later m. in 1916 Thomas Wilce 1856-1946)
Children: Kathleen Elvina (25 Mar 1908 Nairobi); Dorothy Starbuck (25 Jan 1911 Kisii)
Book Reference: Gillett, HBEA, Cuckoo, Police, Hut, Playne, CWGC, Drumkey, EAHB 1906, Gazette, North, EAHB 1907, Red Book 1912
School: Rugby
General Information:
Cuckoo - new Inspector of Police - lately a subaltern in the Essex and the West India Regiments. 1906 - Inspector, Nbi.
Cuckoo - story of wedding and parties afterwards (p.301/3)
Police - Asst. Superintendent C.E.L. Bowen had been commissioned as a Lieutenant in the KAR and was killed in action at Nsendi on Dec. 1st 1914, when making a gallant attack against a German strong position on Susuni Hill. He was one of the first casualties in action suffered by the Police.
CWGC - Lieutenant, EA Police, EA Forces who died on Tuesday, 1st December 1914 age 30. Son of the late Canon Bowen of Clifton, Bristol; husband of Alice May Wilse (formerly Bowen), of Manor House, Chilton Polden, Bridgwater. Kisumu Cemetery Grave Ref. II.B.2 age 30 remembered always / by his wife and babies / Chilton Polden, Bridgewater
Drumkey 1909 - Police - Inspector; Lieut. 1st Batt. Queen's Regiment (2nd Foot); South African War
North - arr. EA 1905; at Mombasa and recommended for post of Police Inspector 7-10-1905
Red Book 1912 - Police Dept. - Assistant Superintendent
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