Private Edward Whittaker Bowes
11150 6th East Lancashire Regiment
Died of Wounds 7th April 1917, aged 21
Lived at 1 Lubbock Street
Buried in the Basra Cemetery Iraq
Commemorated on Burnley Lads Club Memorial
Burnley Express 29th April 1916

ONE OF THREE BROTHERS KILLED (Burnley Express and Advertiser 29th April 1916)

Mr. And Mrs. Bowes, of 1 Lubbock-st., off Woodbine-road, Gannow, have received the sad news this week that one of their three soldier sons was killed in action on the 7th April. Pte. Edward Bowes enlisted in the East Lancashires (Kitcheners Army) in the first month of the war. He went out with the Mediterranean force, and was wounded in the Dardanelles. He was sent home and on his recovery he was drafted out again. Before the war he worked as a weaver at Waltons Mill. Pte. Bowes was only 21 years of age. There are two other brothers out at the front. Mr. Bowes, the father, who is employed at the loom works of Messrs. Butterworth and Dickinson, Rosegrove, has only three sons, and all have been fighting for their King and Country.

ONE OF THREE BROTHERS KILLED (Burnley Express and Advertiser 3rd May 1916)

As we announced on Saturday, Mr. and Mrs. Bowes, of 1 Lubbock-street, off Woodbine-road, Burnley, have received an intimation of the death from wounds, on the 7th of April, of their second son, Pte. Edward Bowes, of the East Lancashire Regt., who lost his life while gallantly serving his King and country in the Eastern theatre of war. Pte. Edward Bowes, who only recently reached his 22nd birthday, enlisted on the 10th of August 1914 a few days after war was declared. He was drafted out to the Dardanelles, and was wounded in the heavy fighting there last July. He was sent home, and about the end of November he sailed from Plymouth to rejoin his regiment in the Mediterranean. Prior to the war he was employed for several years as a weaver at Walton’s Woodbine Mill, and then shortly before he enlisted he went to work at Lane Head. His father is employed at the loom works of Messrs. Butterworth and Dickinson, Rosegrove. There are two other sons at the front – Pte. Willie Bowes, East Lancashires, and Driver Herbert Sutcliffe Bowes, of the County Palatine Artillery.

THREE FIGHTING BROTHERS ANOTHERS FATE UNCERTAIN (Burnley Express and Advertiser 6th May 1916)

On Wednesday we gave a portrait and particulars of the death of Pte. Edward Bowes, of the East Lancashire Regt., son of Mr. and Mrs. Bowes of 1 Lubbock-street, Woodbine-road. Pte Edward Bowes, who was 22 years of age and who died from wounds, has two other brothers serving at the front.
Pte. Willie Bowes (whose portrait we give), aged 20 was in the same regiment as Edward, and they had been together in the Dardanelles, and latterly in another theatre of war. Pte. Willie is a signaller. His parents are getting rather uneasy about his fate, as they have heard nothing from him since the 13th of February. Prior to that they heard regularly from him, as well as his brothers. The third brother now at the front is. Driver Herbert Sutcliffe Bowes, aged 26, who is in the Howitzer Brigade, and who went out early last winter. Mr. and Mrs. Bowes have only these three sons, and all have been manfully doing their duty in the present war.