Steve Gower

{{Short description|Australian Army officer}}

{{Use Australian English|date=April 2016}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2016}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| honorific_prefix = Major General

| name = Steve Gower

| honorific_suffix = {{postnominals|country=AUS|size=100%|AO}}

| image = Steve Gower (2011).jpg

| caption = Steve Gower at an announcement of additional government funding for the AWM in 2011

| birth_name = Stephen Newman Gower

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1940|06|10|df=y}}

| birth_place = Adelaide, South Australia

| death_date =

| death_place =

| education =

| alma_mater = University of Adelaide

| occupation =

| office = Director of the Australian War Memorial

| term_start = March 1996

| term_end = December 2012

| predecessor = Brendon Kelson

| successor = Brendan Nelson

| boards =

| allegiance = Australia

| serviceyears = 1959–1996

| rank = Major General

| branch = Australian Army

| commands = {{nowrap|Training Command (1995–96)}}
8th/12th Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery (1978–80)

| unit =

| battles = Vietnam War

| mawards = Officer of the Order of Australia

}}

Major General Stephen Newman Gower, {{postnominals|country=AUS|size=100%|AO}} (born 10 June 1940) is a retired Australian Army officer and former director of the Australian War Memorial (AWM).{{cite web|url=http://www.vietnamroll.gov.au/VeteranDetails.aspx?VeteranId=1261428|title=Gower, Stephen Newman|work=Vietnam War Nominal Roll|publisher=Australian Government|access-date=22 July 2012}} During his time in the Army he saw combat as an artillery forward observer during the Vietnam War in 1966 and 1967.{{cite web|title=Steve Gower Bio|url=http://www.defence.gov.au/adc/docs/ADCA/Steve%20Gower%20bio.pdf|publisher=Australian Defence College|access-date=27 August 2011}}{{cite web|title=Gower re-appointed as director of Memorial|url=http://www.awm.gov.au/sites/default/files/2011%2002%2024%20Director%20reappointment.pdf|work=Press release|publisher=Australian War Memorial|access-date=28 August 2011}}{{cite news|last=McPhedran|first=Ian|author-link=Ian McPhedran|title=General talks himself out of a job|url=http://www.couriermail.com.au/ipad/general-talks-himself-out-of-a-job/story-fn6ck4a4-1225998374346|access-date=28 August 2011|newspaper=Courier Mail|date=2 February 2011}} He is also the author of the books Guns of the Regiment (1981) and Options for an Australian Defence Technological Strategy (1982).{{cite book|title=Guns of the regiment / S.N. Gower ; line drawings by W.D. Thomas|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn1510164|work=Catalogue|date=January 1981 |publisher=National Library of Australia|isbn=9780642896889 |access-date=28 August 2011}}{{cite book|title=Options for an Australian defence technological strategy / S.N. Gower|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn1729953|work=Catalogue|year=1982 |publisher=National Library of Australia|isbn=9780867840599 |access-date=28 August 2011}}