Cromwell Alexander Bowen

Alternate name(s): 
Charles; Cromwel; Bowea
Date of birth: 
Friday, 15 March 1895
Marital status: 
married
Ethnicity/Nationality: 
Canadian
Profession: 
mechanic
Hometown(s): 
Toronto, Ontario; Kirkland Lake, Ontario
Political affiliation: 
Communist Party of Canada
Prior military experience: 
British Army, US Army; His gravestone lists the Veterans Guard of Canada, Canadian Expeditionary Force, and the Canadian Forestry Corps
Approximate date arrived in Spain: 
1937-08-14 sailed
1937-08-24 arrived via Agullana
Unit: 
Trained with the 2 Training Battalion; Mackenzie Papineau Battalion
Final status: 

POW captured 12 March at Hijar and taken to Pueblo de Hijar until 10 April, then to the university at Bilbao and later to San Pedro de Cardena Prison Camp; Exchanged 5 April 1939; Survived; Returned to Canada 6 May 1939 on the Duchess of Bedford;; Died 18 January 1978 in Sudbury, Ontario

Other: 

He wrote a testimony about his experience as a prisoner of war at San Pedro de CardeƱa.

Sources: 
Figueres List; RGASPI Fond 545, Opis 6, Fond 543, ll. 61-62, 87; Letter from wife; Geiser; Momryk; Petrou; Ancestry; POW Letters Thomas Fisher Library.
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