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  • Gordons, Ballarat
  • Victoria, Australia
  • Son of Alexander and Elizabeth McDowell, of 186, North Rd., Brighton, Victoria, Australia;
    Three brothers: Alexander George, Sergeant Athol Halliday McDowell (KIA Fromelles 19 July 1916), Robert John Leon
    Three sisters: Elizabeth Marguerita, Mercy Muriel Jean, Mary Georgina
  • Clerk

Military service

  • 16 July 1915, Melbourne
  • 8194
  • Private
  • 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
  • 14th Field Ambulance Australian Army Medical Corps
  • Previously rejected for defective eyesight; served with the 55th Infantry; embarked in Melbourne, October 1915; transferred to Alexandria; to France October 1916

Death

  • 21 September 1917 gunshot wound head and buried; n°3 Canadian CCS
  • Died of gunshot wounds in the head in n°3 Canadian CCS
  • 20
  • XXIII - D - 6A

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