Orders, Decorations and Medals

Pair: Major-General William Thomas Bowen, Bombay Army, late Land Transport Corps

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Persia (Capt., Land Trans. Corps); Abyssinia 1867-68 (Major, 3rd Regt. Bombay N.I.) last with slightly slack suspension, generally good very fine (2) £1200-1500

William Thomas Bowen was born in 1827 and was commissioned an Ensign in the Bombay Army in 1844, being promoted to Lieutenant in 1846 and Captain in 1855. He received the brevet of Major in 1864 and was promoted to that rank in the Bombay Staff Corps in 1866. Bowen served with the 2nd (Grenadier) Native Infantry in the South Mahratta Campaign, 1844-45 and was present at the capture of the forts of Punalla and Paunghur. He served with the Land Transport Corps in the Persian Expeditionary Field Force, 1856-57 and was present at the bombardment and capture of Mohumra. He subsequently served in the Abyssinian Expedition, 1867-68, as second-in-command of the 3rd Regiment Bombay Native Infantry. Promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel in 1870 and Colonel in 1875, he retired with the rank of Major-General in 1876. With copied service papers and other research.