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• Name
• Initials
• Vorname
• Place of birth Gordons, Ballarat
• Land Victoria, Australia
• Family 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
• Profession Clerk

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment 16 July 1915, Melbourne
• Service number 8194
• Rank Private
• Medals 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
• Regiment and unit 14th Field Ambulance Australian Army Medical Corps
• Other data related to military career Previously rejected for defective eyesight; served with the 55th Infantry; embarked in Melbourne, October 1915; transferred to Alexandria; to France October 1916

Death

• Wounded 21 September 1917 gunshot wound head and buried; n°3 Canadian CCS
• Type of wounds Died of gunshot wounds in the head in n°3 Canadian CCS
• Died at the age of 20
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXIII - D - 6A

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