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|
Rank |
Lieutenant Colonel |
|
Name & Decorations |
William James McDowell DSO BSc (three times mentioned in despatches) |
|
Service |
British Army |
|
Unit |
Royal Engineers |
|
Attached To |
N/K |
|
Operation |
N/K |
|
Date of Death |
31 July 1944 |
|
Place of Death |
Near Bayeux, France. |
|
Circumstances |
Killed in Action |
|
Age |
36 |
|
Buried or Commemorated at |
Bayeux War Cemetery |
|
Grave or Memorial Number |
Section III: Row B: Grave 1. |
Source:
https://universitystory.gla.ac.uk/roll_of_honour/person/5269
Lieutenant-Colonel William James McDowell, DSO, of the Royal Engineers, was born in Jamaica. He attended the High School of Glasgow and in 1930 graduated BSc from the University. He worked with a Glasgow firm and then served in the RAF and Royal Engineers prior to the war.
McDowell served with the Royal Engineers in France and Flanders in 1939 and 1940, and then in the Middle East where he was awarded a DSO and mentioned three times in despatches.
He took part in the Normandy offensive in the summer of 1944. He was killed near Bayeux in France while attempting to fix a tow rope to a burning ammunition lorry that was endangering traffic on a main road, when the lorry exploded.