[1] He next joined the North Shore Rowing Club in Sydney where he was both a coxswain and coach and had competitive and representative success.

[2] Bowden first made state selection in the 1935 New South Wales men's eight which contested and won the King's Cup at the 1935 Interstate Regatta.

[6] After a some years' absence from competition due to WWII, Bowden contested the New South Wales 1947 state title for eights in a North Shore Rowing Club crew of which he was cox and coach.

[10] From 1969 till 1977 Bowden was a rowing coach of the senior crews at St Joseph's College, Hunters Hill's boatshed where his son had been educated in the 1950s.

[12] Pre and post WWII Bowden had a 50 year career with Tooth and Co. By the 1950s his role was as a management supervisor of the many hotels owned by the brewery throughout NSW and the ACT.