Private Alex M. Dow

Army Number : 76144

Battalion : 16th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Son of Alexander Matthew and Janet Weir Dow, of 38, Batson Street, Govanhill, Glasgow. Lived at 327b Cathcart Road, Glasgow. He enlisted 19th August1915 at Glasgow into the Royal Engineers 3/1st Highland <Field Company. He was posted to the 12th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment. and went to France 11th January 1917. He was transfewered to the 16th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment. 2nd February 1917 He was killed in action, 26th April 1918, age 31.

Commemorated : Pozieres Memorial, France. Panel 52 to 54.