DOWELL, George Thomas
| Service Numbers: | 302, 4856 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 26th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Pontville, Southern Midlands, Tasmania |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Miner |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 24 December 1916, age not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Bancourt British Cemetery Grave IV. M. 1., Bancourt British Cemetery, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 24 May 1915: | Involvement Private, 302, 26th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '15' embarkation_place: Brisbane embarkation_ship: HMAT Ascanius embarkation_ship_number: A11 public_note: '' | |
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| 24 May 1915: | Embarked Private, 302, 26th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ascanius, Brisbane | |
| Date unknown: | Involvement Australian Army (Post WW2), 4856, 21st Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
He served under three Service Numbers: 399, 302 and lastly 4856. [21st Bn. Australian Infantry, A.I.F.]
Served in Egypt, Gallipoli, France also in Boer War.
He was 38 and the son of William and Isabella Dowell, of The Welten, Forfar, Scotland.
He is honoured on the Balmashanner Hill War Memorial- at Forfar - Angus District .
It is a grand castellated edifice, built 1920-1 to a design by architect Thomas R. Soutar to commemorate those fallen in the First World War.
It stands in the park behind the baths on Uplour Road. Known locally as ‘Bummie’ or Boammie, it is located on the top of Balmashanner Hill a mile south of the centre of Forfar. The monument was dedicated by Queen Mary on the 11th September, 1921 and comprises a square tower, with a substantial plinth, more slender middle-section and a corbelled top, featuring a parapet and small projecting pepperpot turret, all constructed of local sandstone.
The tablet above the door bears the inscription:
'THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE'
ERECTED IN MEMORY OF THE MEN OF FORFAR AND DISTRICT WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 – 18.
There are four Australian soldier casualties honoured on the Forfar war memorial, but one, Private Robert Mason, killed in action in France in April, 1918 cannot be verified.
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