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Lieutenant Colonel WILLIAM JAMES McDOWELL

Service Number: 73941
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

Date of Death

Died 31 July 1944

Age 36 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BAYEUX WAR CEMETERY

III. B. 1.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Distinguished Service Order
  • Additional Info Son of Samuel and May McDowell; husband of Isa Murray McDowell, of Harrogate, Yorkshire. B. Sc.
  • Personal Inscription "SERVANT OF GOD, WELL DONE: WELL HAST THOU FOUGHT THE BETTER FIGHT"
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Buried or commemorated at

BAYEUX WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 4654
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