Private 31277 Henry Deeley DOWSE
20th Battalion, Manchester Regiment
Killed in Action, Monday 8th October 1917, Belgium, Age 34
Home address:
40 Fairbrother Street, Hyde, Cheshire
Born:
1883, Hyde, Cheshire
Parents:
Margaret Dowse and James Thomas Dowse
12 Bank Street, Hyde, Cheshire
Marital Status:
Married to Lavinia Dowse (née Harrop)
40 Fairbrother Street, Hyde, Cheshire
Occupation:
Dairyman, Planter's Margarine Works
Enlisted:
Manchester, Lancashire
Remembered:
Tyne Cot Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium, panel 122.
Link to Hyde:
Born in Hyde
Killed by shell fire with five comrades at their machine gun. They were buried where they fell, with a cross placed over their grave.
Named Harry Henry Dowse on Soldiers’ Effects Record.