by George J. Dance
A.P. Bowen was an American poet and soldier of World War I.
Stars and Stripes, 1918. Courtesy Library of Congress.
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Little is known of Bowen. 3 of his poems – "If I were a Cootie," "The R.T.O," and "I Love Corned Beef" – appeared in the Stars and Stripes, a weekly published in France by the American Expeditionary Force of the United States Army between February 8, 1918, and June 13, 1919.[1]
Bowen identified himself as "Sergeant A.P. Bowen, Headquarters Company, 116th Supply Train,"[2] and also as a "sergeant radio telephone operator."[1]
The same 3 poems by Bowen were published in the 1919 anthology YANKS: A.E.F. Verse Originally Published in "The Stars and Stripes" The Official Newspaper of the American Expeditionary Forces. (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, The Knickerbocker Press, 1919).[1] "I Love Corned Beef" was also printed in the anthology (which may be the same anthology retitled), Songs From The Trenches: A collection of verses by American soldiers in France.[2]
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