Letter regarding death of Railway clerk Ronald Alexander Sowden, No 15127

Queensland State Archives posted a photo:

On 6 September 1915, former Railway clerk Ronald Alexander Sowden enlisted with the AIF, aged 18 years and 1 month. He disembarked for Alexandria on 5 March 1916, and went into battle in France on 29 July. He was wounded in August 1916, and again in June 1917, but both times he recovered and was discharged for duty.

Then, on 26 November 1917, this letter is sent requesting confirmation of Sowden’s death. His service dossier confirms he was killed in action on 3 November 1917, in Belgium. Ronald Alexander Sowden’s name was published in the Roll of Honour on 19 December 1917.

Description source: Discovering Anzacs; The Northern Miner, 19 December 1917

Image source: Queensland State Archives Item ID 862636

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