Major-General William Oswald Bowen CB CBE (10 November 1898 – 14 January 1961) was a British Army officer who served in both world wars.

[1] He served with the Royal Gurkha Rifles in France during the First World War, and on 22 March 1918 commissioned into the regiment.

He served with the Gurkha Rifles, including in the Waziristan campaign (1919–20), until his secondment to the Royal Corps of Signals in October 1926.

[2] From 1942 to 1945 Bowen continued to work on the Burma front as the Chief Signal Officer to the Fourteenth Army, serving with the rank of brigadier.

[3][4] In September 1949 he was promoted to the rank of major-general and worked as Chief Signal Officer, Middle East Land Forces until 1951.