DOWELL, Thomas Henry
| Service Number: | 527 |
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| Enlisted: | 15 September 1914, D Company ("original") |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 14th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Moorngag, Benalla - Victoria, Australia, 1 September 1889 |
| Home Town: | Samaria, Benalla, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Driver |
| Died: | 1946, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 15 Sep 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 527, 14th Infantry Battalion, D Company ("original") | |
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| 22 Dec 1914: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 527, 14th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: '' |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Dowell was with a party of about a dozen men of the 14th Battalion, led by Lieutenant Luscombe, who were captured by the Turks while trying to attack Hill 971 on the 8 August 1915. He was last seen severely wounded in the thigh which had a fractured the bone. He was fortunate to survive his ordeal as a prisoner of war in Constantinople. He was repatriated to Alexandria Egypt in November 1918 and returned to Australia the same month. His wounds caused a lot of medical problems for the rest of his life. He has over 300 pages of repatriation files in the National Archives. Dowell died in 1946, age 55.
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