Dai Bowen won the Welsh lightweight title, and started boxing on the various British circuits.

David John Bowen's professional fights were as follows: 1910 1911 1912 Cundick arranged for a series of boxing contests in the United States for both of his boxers including a fight with Packey McFarland, and they booked tickets with agents Dean and Dawson in Cardiff (ticket number 54636; 16 pounds, 2 shillings).

Dear Mother, I hope that you won't worry yourself about me, I can tell you that I am a lot better than I thought I would be, for we gets plenty of fun on board.

From your loving son, David John Both boxers died in the sinking,[1] although Bowen's body was never recovered.

He lived at 42 Baglan Street, Treherbert with his widowed mother, remarried as Mrs Leah Owen and his youngest brother Stephen Bowen.

Bowen's family paid for a grave site memorial in his honour to be erected in Treorchy Cemetery.

Bowen is the great-great uncle of the cartoonist David Squires, most notable for his work for The Guardian newspaper.