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Pte. William Scott Downing
Canadian Expeditionary Forces 28th Battalion
from:humbolt sask. can.
Pte. Arthur Downs
British Army 1st Btn. Royal Scots Fusiliers
from:Stoke on Trent
When Arthur Downs entered service in August 1914 he already had a baby daughter and a wife pregnant with another and she was born in February 1915. The name Downes was spelt without the e and this was how it was on the medals. His daughter born in February 1915 also had the surname spelt without the e. He had another two daughters and two sons. The first born of the two sons, Arthur Downes (called the same name after his father) served in the Second World War with the 1st Battalion Kings Shropshire Light Infantry and won the Military Medal in October 1944 whilst acting as a stretcher bearer on Monte Cece. His army number is 5125135. He is my wife's late father. His second son, William Downes, served in the Royal Navy during the Second World War. His number is 596123.
Sgt. Harold Downs DCM
British Army 11th Hull Heavy Battery Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Hull
There seems to be little information regarding the 11th Hull Heavy Battery of the Royal Garrison Artillery, but I have just finished a book concerning their time in East Africa fighting the German General Von Lettow Vorbeck and his army. I can't take much credit for the book as it is actually a first hand account written by Sgt Harold Downs DCM. He joined in Hull in 1914 and made it all the way through the war, despite getting Maleria in 1917 and being redeployed to Northern France just in time for the Big Push of 1918. If anyone is interested and would like to know more, please get in touch.
Pte. Harry Downs
British Army 1/6 Btn. Duke of Wellington Regiment
from:Bradford
(d.3rd Mar 1917)
Pte. Thomas Downs
British Army 1st Btn. Royal Scots
(d.3rd Feb 1915)
Thomas Downs, Private 11085, is remembered on the Ypres Menin Gate.
Pte. Thomas William Downs
British Army 11th (1st Finsbury Rifles) Battalion London Regiment
from:Darlington
(d.19th Apr 1917)
Pte. George Downward
British Army 1/7 Btn. Cheshire Regiment
from:Crewe
Pte. Alfred J. Dowse
British Army 1st. Btn. Dorsetshire Regiment
from:Winchester
Alfred Dowse was a brother of my maternal grandmother, who sadly I only ever met just before he died. He served with the 14th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment, was wounded (we think with shell shock) in October 1916 and was repatriated to England. His Medal Roll index indicates that he returned to active service,but this time it was with the 1st. Battalion, Dorset Regiment
Pte. John Norman Dowse
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
from:7 Lax terrace, Norton, Stockton on Tees
(d.3rd Jul 1916)
John was born in 1894 at Norton-on-Tees to Edward Ranyell and Elizabeth Dowse. He grew up at 7 Lax Terrace, Norton with his parents and siblings Ethel, Edward, Nellie and Edith. John enlisted, in 1915, at Stockton, into the 18th.Battalion Durham Light Infantry (Durham Pals) service number 18-47. He died of wounds received on the 3 July 1916 during the Battle of the Somme and is buried in Couin British Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France. John was posthumously awarded the 1914-15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal. His mother requested the inscription - Through death shall come new life and out of darkness light - for his headstone.
Pte. John Hutton Dowse VC.
British Army 2nd Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment
from:Pinchbeck, Spalding, Lincs.
(d.16th October 1916)
John Dowse was my great great uncle, who I found out about while doing my family tree in 2016. He was killed at the Somme and is buried at Combles Communal Cemetery Extension which I visited in December 2017.
Fus. Henry Selwood Dowsett
British Army 24th Battalion Royal Fusiliers
L/Sgt. William David Dowsett
British Army 6th (City of London) Battalion (Rifles) London Regiment
from:Brixton
(d.6th April 1918)
William Dowsett was the son of William David Dowsett and Florence Sandys. Born Lambeth 17 Nov 1894. Unmarried. Buried Etaples Military Cemetery.
Pte. William Gilbert Bailey Dowsett
British Army 6th Btn. Seaforth Highlanders
from:39 Littie Rd., London
(d.28th August 1918)
Gilbert Dowsett received a Military Discharge on 10th March 1917, after injuries suffered in a gas attack.
Pte. Harry Dowson MM.
British Army 9th Btn. West Yorkshire Regiment
from:Thirsk, North Yorks
Harry Dowson was born in the first quarter of 1888 in Thirsk and was an agricultural labourer in pre-war life. Like his brothers, Fred and Walter, Harry joined up at the start of WWI. However, unlike Herbert (killed in action) and Walter, who was captured in action, became a POW and was discharged in 1919 with no recorded disciplinary offences, Harry seems to have committed a number of transgressions, only one of which seemed to lead to serious punishment. But he also won the Military Medal, gazetted 19/11/1917, presumably as a result of the action that saw him wounded by shrapnel in the shoulder. Harry joined the York & Lancaster Regiment at York on 2 September 1914, less than a month into the War, aged 24 years and 9 months, recorded as a farm labourer living away from his father's home. Height 5ft 8in, weight 139lbs, chest 36 ins, fresh complexion, grey eyes, auburn hair. His Reg No was 11994.
In 1918 he rejoined his original Regiment, the Yorks and Lancs.
- 09/09/14 posted to West Yorkshire Regiment
- 22/09/14 Grantham: offence of losing his rifle(!) 3 days confined to barracks
- 25/10/14 Grantham: neglect of duty when company cook - 3 days confined to barracks
- 27/10/14 Grantham: unshaved on parade - 3 days confined to barracks
- 31/10/14 Grantham: absent from defaulters parade and reveille: 7 days confined to barracks
- 21/11/14 Grantham: not shaved on parade - 3 days confined to barracks
- 17/01/15 Grantham: Absent from midnight until 8pm 18/01/15
- 18/01/15 forfeits 7 days pay and 7 days confined to barracks
- 07/05/15 Witley Camp: Absent from night operations; deprived of 2 days pay and 8 days confined to barracks
- 28/05/15 Witley Camp: absent from tattoo until 7am - 3 days confined to barracks
- 02/07/15 Embarked Liverpool for Alexandria (9th Battalion West Yorkshire Rgt)
- 07/02/16 Disembarked Alexandria
- 01/04/16 awarded 2 days loss of pay and 10 days field punishment number 2 (which involved being shackled but not tied up to any particular object) for being absent from 12.30 30/03/16 to 10.30 31/03/16
- 25/06/16 embarked Alexandria
- 02/07/16 disembarked Marseilles
- 19/10/16 granted leave to 29/10/16
- 10/09/17 granted leave to 20/09/17
- October 1917 Wounded in action in France - date unclear - shrapnel left shoulder - fractured clavicle
- 10/10/17 1st Canadian General Hospital, Etaples
- 17/10/17 to England and hospital
- 19/11/17 Award of Military Medal announced
- 06/12/17 discharged from hospital
- 12/12/17 Posted to Yorks and Lancs Regiment
In addition to the Military Medal, he was also awarded the 1915 Star, Victory Medal and British War Medal ("Pip, Squeak and Wilfred"). He married in 1922 but there do not seem to have been any children to the marriage.
- On 06/11/18 only a few days before the Armistice he was posted to the Expeditionary Force for France or Italy
- 11/11/18 (Armistice Day) Harry was proceeding to join the Italian Expeditionary Force and did apparently serve there, even though the war was over.
- 10/03/19 Posted to Ripon
- 10/04/19 Posted at York to Army Reserve Class Z on demobilisation.
Pte. William Doy
British Army 8th Btn. Norfolk Regiment
from:Great Ryburgh, Norfolk
(d.22nd October 1917)
William Doy was born on 24th August 1894 in Colkirk. His father's family came from Brisley, Norfolk and his mother's family came from Gt. Ryburgh, Norfolk. William's mother was Harriet Doy nee Ainger and his father was Arthur Doy. He was the couple's only son, he had five sisters: Bertha born 1889, Ruth born 1890, Thurza born 1891, Emma Laura born 1892, and Bessie born 1897. William's mother died in childbirth in 1901 when he was only 6 years old. His father was unable to care for his children and they all went to live with different relatives. William lived with paternal aunt and uncle, Samuel and Georgina Nelson at 48, Fakenham Road Gt. Ryburgh. Also living in the Nelson household were the couple's sons, one of their sons, Ernest Nelson also joined up and was killed in WW1. William attended Gt. Ryburgh School. He left school and worked on a local farm until he enlisted 3rd September 1914. William enlisted only a month after war was declared and initially for one year.
He joined the 8th (Service) Battalion, Norfolk Regiment in September 1914 . The Norfolk Regiment was raised at Norwich in September 1914 as part of Kitchener's Second New Army and joined 53rd Brigade, 18th (Eastern) Division. In October 1914 the Battalion moved to Colchester and then moved to Salisbury Plain in May 1915. On 25th July 1915 the Battalion mobilised for war and landed at Boulogne.
Since 14th October 1914 French and English troops had occupied the area around Ypres. The British and French put up a defence to block the route for the German Army through Ypres to the ports on the French and Belgian coast. The Allies and the British Army remained in Ypres for four years from October 1914 to the end of the war in November 1918. Ypres never fell into German occupation during the war.
In 1916 William saw action with The Norfolk Regiment on The Somme in The Battle of Albert,capturing their objectives near Montauban, The Battle of Bazentin Ridge,including the capture of Trones Wood, The Battle of Delville Wood, The Battle of Thiepval Ridge, The Battle of the Ancre Heights, playing a part in the capture of the Schwaben Redoubt and Regina Trench, and the The Battle of the Ancre. In 1917 the Regiment took part in the Operations on the Ancre including Miraumont and the capture of Irles, they fought during the German retreat to the Hindenburg Line, The Third Battle of the Scarpe, Then moving to Flanders.
On 22nd of October 1917 after serving from July 1915 on the front line William was killed in action, his body is buried in Leper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.
Pte. Alfred Doyle
British Army 6th Btn. King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment
from:Manchester
(d.13th Aug 1915)
Alfred Doyle was buried at sea and is commemorated on the Helles Memorial.
Gnr. Andrew Doyle
Royal Garrison Artillery 256th Siege Battery
from:Bathgate
(d.3rd June 1917)
Pte. Anthony Doyle
British Army 7th Batallion Royal Dublin Fusiliers
from:Wexford St, Dublin
(d.23rd Sep 1916)
My great-uncle Anthony Doyle, an Irish boy, ran away to join the Royal Dublin Fusiliers in August 1914. He was just 16 and lied about his age to get into the army. After initial training, he went out to Gallipoli in 1915 but for some reason, missed the landing at Suvla Bay which saw so many of his comrades killed and injured on 7th August 1915. He joined the 7th Battalion a couple of days later and survived the Battle of Kiretch Tepe Sirt. With the rest of his Battalion he was moved to Salonika and lived through the harsh winter of 1915 up in the Macedonian mountains. Injured, he was sent home to Ireland in 1916, just in time for the Easter Rising in Dublin.
In common with many Irish families, the Doyles were neither the first nor the last to have members fighting both for and against the British. Several of Anthony's brothers were actively involved in the IRA and a story from my father tells of the family hotel being raided at the front door by Crown forces whilst the arms cache hidden in the basement was hastily got out through the back door!
Anthony resisted his elder brother's request to turn and went back to Salonika. The 7th Battallion was sent to the Struma River sometime around September 1916 to establish a line across the river against the Bulgarians. Despite gaining a foothold at first, the Allies were forced back to their own side of the river. On the 23rd September they tried again to take the village of Karadzakoj-Zir-Bala but retired in the face of fierce opposition. It was during this retreat that Anthony was killed outright by a sniper. He was 18 years old.
The role of the Irish soldiers in the First World War is a difficult and emotive subject even now in Ireland. My father was named Anthony after his dead uncle by my grandfather Tom who was a distinguished IRA veteran. I remember this great-uncle I never knew every Armistice Day - I play The Green Fields of France for him and all those like him. He is buried at Struma Military Cemetary - IV.B.8. If you pass that way, stop a while and tell him he's remembered. Ar Dheis de go raibh seid.
Pte. Charles Doyle
British West Indies Regiment 8th Bn
from:Layou, St. Vincent
(d.17th October 1919)
Private Doyle was the Son of Thomas Doyle and his wife Augusta Lewis, of Layou, St. Vincent.
He was 24 and is buried in the Layou Cemetery In St. Vincent, BWI
Pte. Charles Doyle
British West Indies Regiment 8th Btn.
from:Layou, St. Vincent
(d.17th October 1919)
Private Doyle was the Son of Thomas Doyle and his wife Augusta Lewis, of Layou, St. Vincent.
He was 24 and is buried in the Layou Cemetery, St. Vincent & the Grenadines.
Pte. Edward Doyle
British Army 1st Btn. Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
from:Fife
(d.9th May 1915)
Cpl. Edward Doyle
British Army 1st Btn., X Coy. Royal Dublin Fusiliers
from:County Carlow
(d.28th September 1918 )
Sgt. Henry Doyle
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Newcastle
Henry Doyle was commisioned into the 26th Battalion
Pte. J. M. Doyle
Australian Imperial Forces 17th Battalion
(d.5th March 1915)
Private Doyle is buried south of the ruins in the Cam Cemetery in Co. Roscommon, Ireland.
Pte. J. Doyle
British Army Royal Dublin Fusiliers
from:Kilcullen
Private Doyle was transferred to (547290) Scottish Command Labour Centre, Labour Corps.
He was the son of James Doyle of Convent View, Kilcullen. He died on 17th January 1919 and is buried in the south part of the Kilcullen (Abbey) Cemetery, Kilcullen, Co. Kildare, Ireland. He was 36 years old.
Sgt. J. H. Doyle
British Army 11th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles
Sgt Doyle served with the 11th Royal Irish Rifles.
Pte. John James Doyle
British Army 4th Btn. Yorkshire Regiment
from:Jarrow
(d.23rd Mar 1918)
John James Doyle aged 18 when he died on 23rd March 1918 was the son of Bernard and Mary Doyle, he served with the 4th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment (Alexandra Princess of Wales Own) He was born and lived in Jarrow, he enlisted in Sunderland.
John is remembered on the Pozieres Memorial and is commemorated on the Triptych in St. Paul's Church, Jarrow.
Pte. Joseph " " Doyle
British Army 6th Dragoon Guards
from:Carlow, Ireland
This is my grandfather. Like so many men of his time they gave so much. And, as we get on, they will be forgotten. So that the next generation can learn we must preserve their memory or it will be lost. Keep up the good work it not easy
Rflmn. Joseph Doyle
British Army 2nd Battalion Rifle Brigade
from:Islington, London
(d.31st March 1918)
Martin Doyle MC, VC.
British Army Royal Munster Fusiliers
from:New Ross, Co. Wexford
Martin Doyle enlisted with the British Army when he was 15 and saw service in India before joining the Royal Munster Fusiliers in 1914. He was involved in all the major battles. He was gassed, bombed and wounded. He won the Military Medal and the Victoria Cross for two notable acts of bravery and killed several German soldiers while rescuing the crew of a British tank that had come under heavy military fire.
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