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DOWD, Thomas
(Service number 8/913)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Private

Birth

Date	03/08/1882	Place of Birth	Launceston, Tasmania, Australia

Enlistment Information

Date	15 Aug 1914-31 Dec 1915	Age
Address at Enlistment	Little Akaloa
Occupation	Labourer
Previous Military Experience	South African War, 1899-1902
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Mrs Frances Smith (sister), Rangitata
Religion	Church of England
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	Main Body
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Otago Infantry Battalion
Date	16 October 1914
Transport	Ruapehu
Embarked From	Port Chalmers	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Second Tasmanian (Bushmen's) Contingent

Military Awards

Campaigns	Egypt 1914-1915; Balkans (Gallipoli) 1915
Service Medals	King's South Africa Medal (with South Africa 1901 clasp); 1914-1915 Star; British War Medal; Victory Medal
Military Awards

Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
PoW Camps
Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date		Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	1 May 1915	Age	34
Place of Death	Gallipoli, Turkey
Cause	Killed in action
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Lone Pine Memorial, Lone Pine Cemetery, Anzac, Turkey
Memorial Reference	75
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Thomas Dowd was the son of Alexander and mary Dowd of Launceston, Tasmania; served in the South African Campaign with the Australian forces

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database (November 2014)

External Links

Researched and Written by

Carol Bell, SC branch NZSG

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