Constable Bowen – Way to go Australia

Shot by a bushranger – the most Australian experience

1879 – Policeman Edward Webb-Bowen migrated to Australia for the “colonial experience” and probably got more than he bargained for. Being killed by an infamous bushranger slots perfectly into the Australian frontier experience, but in the years before that he was also speared by Aborigines while a member of the Native Mounted Police in FarContinue reading “Shot by a bushranger – the most Australian experience”