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Record #26854
Name :
: Ernest Henry SOWDEN (1921 - 2005)


Father
: Albert SOWDEN
Mother
: Mabel K WHITE
BMD and other details
Date of Birth
: 22 Mar 1921   Notes : Source: Fairbridge Kids

Marriage (1)
: Q3 1944   Spouse/Notes : Doris May SHORT, Plymouth 5b 618
Marriage (2)
:

Date of Death
: 24 Jul 2005   Notes : Source: MCB WA
Abode (1) : Place of BirthEngland, Berkshire, Windsor

Birth reg Jun qtr 1921, 2c 847, mmn WHITE
Abode (2) : Place of Death / BurialAustralia, Western Australia
Sailing Information
Date of Arrival
: Feb 1934
Country
: Australia

Ship
: Jervis Bay

Placement Family
:
Homes / Agencys
Institution (GB)
:

Agency
: Fairbridge Homes
NotesErnest was one of 23 children aged 8 to 13 who arrived in Fremantle, Western Australia from Southampton aboard 'Jervis Bay' in February 1934, bound for Fairbridge Farm School, Pinjarra. He was 12 years old.

Ernest was one of 4 sons; his mother Mabel died in 1926 aged 28 (Wimborne, Dorset).

He served as a Leading Aircraftman in the Royal Australian Air Force in WWII (Source: NAA RecordSearch):
SOWDEN ERNEST HENRY : Service Number - 38413 : Date of birth - 22 Mar 1921 : Place of birth - WINDSOR ENGLAND : Place of enlistment - PERTH WA : Next of Kin - SOWDEN DORIS (wife, Plymouth England; originally lists a brother Leslie Walter Sowden as next of kin - address: "somewhere in England", other papers have him at Macregor House, Tulse Hill, Brixton)

Ernest had a son with Vera Doreen LUXON in Plymouth in 1944.

He died in 2005 aged 84 and his wife Doris died 12 June 2011 aged 86. 
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26273 DEARLOVE, Kenneth1921ENG, BRK, Reading Apr 1930 : Jervis Bay AUS Fairbridge Homes  
21147 ELLIOTT, Albert Cecil1909ENG, BRK, Abingdon May 1921 : Ormonde AUS Fairbridge Homes  
21146 ELLIOTT, Evelyn Violet1910ENG, BRK, Reading May 1921 : Ormonde AUS Fairbridge Homes  
21145 ELLIOTT, Hilda Gladys1908ENG, BRK, Reading May 1921 : Ormonde AUS Fairbridge Homes  
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27050 FOX, George1917ENG, BRK, Wokingham Oct 1928 : Beltana AUS Fairbridge Homes Pinjarra1929  
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13903 LANGLEY, William1873ENG, BRK, Cookham Aug 1887 : Toronto CAN Church Emigration Society  
26259 MAY, Frederick John1928ENG, BRK, Hungerford, Reading Jan 1937 : Oronsay AUS Fairbridge Homes  
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