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{{Infobox military person<br />
|name = William Bowen<br />
|image = <br />
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|birth_date = {{birth date|1898|11|10|df=yes}}<br />
|birth_place = Llanelli, Carmarthenshire<br />
|death_date = {{death date and age|1961|01|14|1898|11|10|df=yes}}<br />
|death_place = St Giles Hill, Winchester<br />
|rank = [[Major-general (United Kingdom)|Major-General]]<br />
|serviceyears = 1917–1954<br />
|servicenumber = 11916<br />
|nickname = "Bill"<br />
|allegiance = {{UK}} <br />
|branch = {{flagicon|British Raj}} [[British Indian Army]] (1917–1928)<br />[[Image:Flag of the British Army.svg|23px]] [[British Army]] (1928–1954)<br />
|commands = <br />
|battles = [[First World War]]<br />[[Waziristan campaign (1919–20)]]<br />[[1936–39 Arab revolt in Palestine]]<br />[[Second World War]]<br />
|awards = [[Companion of the Order of the Bath]]<br />[[Commander of the Order of the British Empire]]<br />[[Mentioned in Dispatches]] (2)<br />
}}<br />
[[Major-general (United Kingdom)|Major-General]] '''William Oswald Bowen''' {{post-nominals|CB|CBE}} (10 November 1898 – 14 January 1961) was a [[British Army]] officer who served in both world wars.<br />
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==Military career==<br />
Bowen was born in Llanelli, [[Carmarthenshire]], and educated at the [[Royal Military College, Sandhurst]]. He received a commission on the unattached list of the [[British Indian Army]] on 21 December 1917.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=30438|date=20 December 1917|page=13337 |supp=y }}</ref> He served with the [[Royal Gurkha Rifles]] in France during the [[First World War]], and on 22 March 1918 commissioned into the regiment. He served with the Gurkha Rifles, including in the [[Waziristan campaign (1919–20)]], until his secondment to the [[Royal Corps of Signals]] in October 1926. On 29 September 1928 he transferred to the Royal Signals, and Bowen was employed with the Burma Military Police and the Civil Government of Burma until 1936. Between 1936 and 1939 Bowen was engaged in the [[1936–39 Arab revolt in Palestine|Arab revolt in Palestine]].<ref name=unit>'Bowen, William Oswald' in ''[http://www.unithistories.com/officers/Army_officers_B04.html British Army Officers 1939-1945] at unithistories.com, accessed 6 July 2015</ref><br />
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In May 1939, Bowen became the Chief Signal Officer on the Burma Front in British Burma Army, and he was [[Mentioned in Dispatches]] in October 1942 for his services in the [[Burma Campaign]].<ref name=unit/> From 1942 to 1945 Bowen continued to work on the Burma front as the Chief Signal Officer to the [[Fourteenth Army (United Kingdom)|Fourteenth Army]], serving with the rank of brigadier. He was mentioned in dispatches for a second time in October 1944. Following the end of the [[Second World War]], Bowen was invested as a [[Companion of the Order of the Bath]] and as a [[Commander of the Order of the British Empire]] for his wartime services in Burma.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=36928|date=8 February 1945|page=792 |supp=y }}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=37595|date=6 June 1946|page=2729 |supp=y }}</ref> In September 1949 he was promoted to the rank of major-general and worked as Chief Signal Officer, [[Middle East Land Forces]] until 1951. From 1951 until his retirement in September 1954 he was Director of Signals at the [[War Office]].<ref name=unit/><br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[https://www.unithistories.com/officers/Army_officers_B04.html#Bowen_WO British Army Officers 1939−1945]<br />
*[https://generals.dk/general/Bowen/William_Oswald/Great_Britain.html Generals of World War II]<br />
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