DOWD, Joseph
| Service Number: | 584 |
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| Enlisted: | 28 December 1915, An original member of B Company 33rd Battalion |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Cassilis, New South Wales, Australia, 1893 |
| Home Town: | Cassilis, Upper Hunter Shire, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Cook |
| Died: | Died of wounds, Belgium, 29 October 1917 |
| Cemetery: |
Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery Plot XXI, Row DD, Grave 1. |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 28 Dec 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 584, 33rd Infantry Battalion, An original member of B Company 33rd Battalion | |
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| 4 May 1916: | Involvement Private, 584, 33rd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Marathon embarkation_ship_number: A74 public_note: '' | |
| 4 May 1916: | Embarked Private, 584, 33rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Marathon, Sydney | |
| 29 Sep 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 2nd Infantry Battalion | |
| 20 Sep 1917: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 584, 2nd Infantry Battalion, Menin Road |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Private Joseph Dowd was the son of John Dowd, who passed away in 1905, and Rosannah Dowd of Tamworth, New South Wales.
He had three brothers who also served overseas in the AIF, two of them, Allan and Edward, returned to Australia with severe wounds in 1917, and Paul Dowd returned to Australia in 1919.
Prior to enlisting Joseph Dowd was employed at Schofield's Post Office Hotel, in Tamworth and left Australia during May 1916.
Joseph Dowd fought from September 1916 and went through the endless fighting around Ypres of 1917, twice being wounded.
Joseph Dowd was mortally wounded by an aerial German bomb landing on his tent at the Belgian Chateau Segard near Ypres, France on 27th October 1917. Some German planes came over the 2nd Battalion camp lines on this date and several bombs hit two or three tents, killing over 20 men outright and wounding many more.
Joseph was severely wounded in the back during the incident and though removed to the 2nd Canadian Casualty Clearing Station he died of his wounds two days later.
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