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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 8074" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Dowding </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Kenneth Bruce </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>MI9 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Corporal </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>S/131722 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>DATE OF DEATH</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>30th June 1943 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AGE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>29 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>GRAVESITE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Reichswald Forest War Cemetery,Germany 55.G.11 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>parent unit Royal Army Service Corps (Intelligence Corps in London Gazette)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>born 4.5.1914 Melbourne,Victoria,Australia</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>son of John McCallum and Margaret Catherine (nee Walsh) Dowding,Huntley,Melbourne,</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Victoria,Australia</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>educated Glenhuntly State School (Dux 1925)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>educated Wesley College,Melbourne 1929-32</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>school teacher in civilian life</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>graduated University of Melbourne</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>joined Army in England February 1940</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>POW 22.5.1940</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>escaped August 1940</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>joined Pat O'Leary Line February 1941</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>award Mention in Despatches (posthumous)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>arrested 9/10.12.1941</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>executed Dortmund jail,Germany</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>cremated 12.7.1943 and remains originally buried Dortmund cemetery </em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em><a href="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/k-b-dowding.13997/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/13/13997-9c193b853aa2d658c318f839eaa1e65b.jpg?1591399040" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></em></p></blockquote><p></p>
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