Clement A. Bowers Biography


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This biography was copied from "Washington County in the World War", 
page 36


Clement A. Bowers 
Crawfordsville, Iowa

Clement A. Bowers of Crawfordsville, was born in Kearney County, Nebr., on 
November 8, 1891. He is the son of Howard M. Bowers and Roxana McGavach. He is a 
graduate of the Crawfordsville High School and Gem City Business College.

Army Record

Second Lieutenant Bowers entered the service May 24, 1917, at Omaha, in the 
4th Nebraska Infantry which became the 127th Field Artillery, Camp Cody, N. M. 
He was transferred to Artillery Replacement Troops and entered the Field 
Artillery Central Officers' Training Camp, Camp Taylor, Ky. He was commissioned 
Second Lieutenant of Artillery and assigned to the 69th Field Artillery, Firing 
Center, West Point, Ky. He was discharged December 22, 1918 from Camp Knox, Ky.