DOWLING, Claude
| Service Number: | 1348 |
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| Enlisted: | 2 November 1914 |
| Last Rank: | Lance Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | 3rd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Dubbo, New South Wales, Australia, 1893 |
| Home Town: | Dubbo, Dubbo Municipality, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Dubbo, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Draper |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Pozieres, France, 9 April 1917 |
| Cemetery: |
Beaumetz Cross Roads Cemetery, Beaumetz-les-Cambrai Row C, Grave 3 |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Dubbo Memorial Drive & Rose Garden, Nevertire Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 2 Nov 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3rd Infantry Battalion | |
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| 11 Feb 1915: | Involvement Private, 1348, 3rd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Seang Bee embarkation_ship_number: A48 public_note: '' | |
| 11 Feb 1915: | Embarked Private, 1348, 3rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Seang Bee, Sydney | |
| 9 Apr 1917: | Involvement AIF WW1, Lance Sergeant, 1348, 3rd Infantry Battalion, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 1348 awm_unit: 3 Battalion awm_rank: Lance Sergeant awm_died_date: 1917-04-09 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Robert Kearney
Born Vivian Cecil Claude Dowling
Vivian Cecil Claude Dowling. Another young Dubboite, a lad of excellent character and wide popularity, Vivian Cecil Claude Dowling (generally known as Claude), son of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Dowling, of Carrington Avenue, has also earned the wreath of glory — he was killed in action in France on April 9. Claude, like his brother "Ted," still at the front, was an early responder to the call.
Both brothers went through Gallipoli and after the evacuation Ted remained with the Light Horse in the East, while Claude, with his comrades, was called to France. He had gallantly carried himself in all the A.I.F. fighting in that hitherto fair land, and for courage and resource was some time ago decorated with the Military Medal.
He was a draper by trade, and was employed at Nevertire at the outbreak of the war. His parents are old and esteemed residents of Dubbo, and their sorrow is bitter at the sacrifice of one of the gallant lads on whom so many
years of life had been centred. But such grief is discounted by the parental pride that must glow, for some time, perhaps, intermittently, but soon with an all-sufficiency of force and brilliancy to dissipate the shadows that for the pre
sent have invested their home and their lives. Sergt. Dowling was 24 years of age. - From http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article228636557
Biography contributed by Kerry Shooks
Contributed by Kerry Shooks
I have found along the way in adding to Claude's and his family line, there are family and friends who have been out there adding their own family stories to the Dowling and other Family Trees. This all adds to the history, these family members maybe gone but never forgotten.
Vivian ka Claude Dowling is one of Dowling family's young men from Dubbo and surrounding areas who fought in WW1 and WW2. Vivian comes from a long line of Pioneers from Dubbo and surrounding areas.
Great Grandparents - Martin Dowling snr b • 1790 Kilkenny, Ireland d • Kilkenny, Ireland Anastasia Bulger Dowling b.1798 • Kilkenny, Ireland d. 15 Sep 1875 • Gulgong, NSW attached to Patrick Dunne & Robert Dunne.
Grandparents - Edward Dowling b. 1831 • Kilkenny Ireland d. 8 FEB 1912 • Dubbo, NSW & Anastasia Walsh b. 1835 • Jenkinstown, Kilkenny, Ireland d. 26 AUG 1920 • Dubbo, NSW
Parents - Martin Dowling b. 1858 • Mudgee, NSW d. 2 Sep 1947 • Dubbo, NSW - & Ada Marguerite Jourdant b. 1858 • Mudgee, NSW d.2 Sep 1947 • Dubbo, NSW
More information on the Dowling family can be found on Ancestry.com and Find A Grave.
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