David McDowell

Forenames

David AWMM

Surname

McDowell AWMM

Service number

WWI 16224 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Next of kin

Miss A.J. Jones (friend), Kongahu, Karamea, New Zealand AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

Messines AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 16224 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM Labourer/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 26 Jun 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 56 or HMNZT 57 AWMM Vessel was Tahiti or Maunganui AWMM Rifleman AWMM 5th Reinforcements, 3rd Battalion, Signal Section AWMM New Zealand Rifle Brigade AWMM

Medical notes

• Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM
• Other, WWI AWMM
  Nature of Injury: Un-united radius Percent of disability: 40 Source: New Zealand. Army (1920). List of the names of all ex-members of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, suffering permanent disability from 20% to 100% AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Private AWMM
Canterbury Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion AWMM

New Zealand at the Front (a magazine written and published and illustrated in France by men of the New Zealand Division) 1917 issue, page141.

Present address (as listed in New Zealand. Army (1920). List of the names of all ex-members of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, suffering permanent disability from 20% to 100%): Chalmers Military Hospital AWMM

Death

7 Jun 1917 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Cemetery

Strand Military Cemetery, Comines-Warneton, Hainaut, Belgium AWMM X. A. 24/30A. AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R10923893
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/165347/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/165347
  Further Reference
• New Zealand at the Front a magazine written and published and illustrated in France by men of the New Zealand Division (1917). London : Cassell.
  https://archive.org/details/newzealandatfron00lond/newzealandatfron00lond
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference

References

• Information kindly provided by family
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  34: 36
• New Zealand. Army (1920). List of the names of all ex-members of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, suffering permanent disability from 20% to 100%, compiled from returns supplied by the Commissioner of Pensions, in respect to: a) Permanent War Pensions, and from returns supplied by the Director-General of Medical Services, regarding: b) Discharged and undischarged hospital patients, assessed as suffering permanent disability, but not yet in receipt of a pension at date (28-4-20). New Zealand. Director-General of Medical Services. NZ Times Co. (Printer).
• Ferguson, David (1921). The history of the Canterbury Regiment, N.Z.E.F. 1914-1919. Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd: Auckland, N.Z.
• Austin, W. (1924). The official history of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade (The Earl of Liverpool's Own). Wellington, N.Z.: L T Watkins.
• New Zealand at the Front a magazine written and published and illustrated in France by men of the New Zealand Division (1917). London : Cassell.