Reuben Joseph Vowles was born in London in 1891. After emigrating to Adelaide he played for Hindmarsh reserves in 1912 and Corinthians in 1913-14. Short and lightly built, he may have been an elusive winger.
He enlisted on September 29th 1916, giving his occupation as “tinsmith”. Whilst still in training camp he married Nellie Shacklock at Port Adelaide on November 8th 1916. Vowles arrived in France in October 1917 as a driver with the 46th Field Artillery.
He survived the war unscathed, but created a scare back home in 1919 when he went ten weeks without writing to his wife. He was in England awaiting shipment home and did not return to Adelaide until September 1919. Reuben
Vowles died in Adelaide in 1974.