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Private JOHN WILLIAM DOWEY

Service Number: 10930
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Yorkshire Regiment

6th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 27 August 1918

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LES BARAQUES MILITARY CEMETERY, SANGATTE

IV. F. 9A.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Secondary Unit, Regiment transf. to (479264) 768th Area Employment Coy. Labour Corps
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of David Dowey, of "Ocean View," Sandsend, nr. Whitby, Yorks., and the late Hannah Eliza Dowey. Of Easington, Yorks. Wounded at the Dardanelles, 22nd Aug., 1915; on the Somme, Aug., 1916; and again at Ypres, in Aug., 1917.
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