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.