Name
Thomas McDowell
1883
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
15/08/1917
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
31867
York and Lancaster Regiment
6th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BRANDHOEK NEW MILITARY CEMETERY
V. D. 10.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Bishop's Stortford memorials
Pre War
Thomas McDowell was born in 1883 in Long Riston, Yorkshire, the son of William and Mary McDowell. In 1891 he was living with his family at Rise, Yorks where his father was a gardener.
By the 1901 Census he was a boarder in Ferriby, Yorks and working as a gardener. He married Lizzie Robinson on 11 March 1908 at the Parish Church, LLantarnam, Wales and on the 1911 Census he was living with his wife and son William at Harwood Cottages, Drumlarig, Woolton Hill, Newbury, Berks and working as a Domestic Gardener. They later had two more sons, Henry and Ivor and were living at 62 Hadham Road, Bishop's Stortford on enlistment. His widow later moved to Grimsby, Lincs.
Wartime Service
Formerly 25535, Northamptonshire Regiment.
He enlisted on 5th December 1915 at Bishop's Stortford and was mobilised on 5 June 1916. He served in France with the York and Lancaster Regiment from 29 September 1916 until he was shot in the abdomen and died at the 44th Casualty Clearing Station.
Additional Information
Widow Lizzie was awarded a pension of 26s 3d a week for herself and her three children. She was also awarded a war gratuity of £4 10s and his pay owing of £3 3s, and was also awarded a pension of £2 6s 3d a week from 25 February 1918.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
