Frederick William Dowsell
Memorial: Coalpit Heath - St Saviour's Church
Regiment: Royal Field Artillery
Medals: British War Medal, Next of Kin Memorial Plaque 1914 - 1921, Victory Medal
Rank and number: Gunner 67997
Parents: Thomas and Hester Dowsell (nee Gleed)
Date of birth: 1893
Date of death: 02/08/1916
Buried/Commemorated at: Dantzig Alley British Cemetery, Ref: Sp. Mem. I., Mametz, Somme, France.
Age: 23
Further information:
Frederick William Dowsell was born in 1893 the son of Thomas and Hester Dowsell and brother to Walter Dowsell, who also died in the war. His parents married in 1886 and his mother died in 1896 aged 35. His father remarried Fanny Bezer in 1898
Frederick served with the 70th Battery, Royal Field Artillery as a gunner. Frederick died in France on the 2nd of August 1916, at the age of 23 years
He is buried in the Dantzig Alley British Cemetery, Ref: Sp. Mem. I., Mametz, Somme, France
Frederick is remembered alongside his brother on the Chipping Sodbury and District War Memorial Cottage Hospital board, now in Yate and District Heritage Centre
By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):
Yate and District Heritage Centre and Forces War Records