Private Arthur Dowd

Army Number: 97077

Battalion: 2/5th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Son of Betsy Ann Dowd, of 15 wentworth, Middlesborough Tyne and Wear. He was a goods Clerk prior to enlisting 1st June 1916 into the 18th Reserve training Battlion. He wsa was transferred to the Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment. 17th November 19217, was posted to the 16th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment. and went to France 28th December 1917. He was posted 2/5th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment. 2nd January 1918 and was reported missing 21st Marck 1918. He died of gunshot wounds to his thigh 31st March 1918. in Hospital whilst a prisoner of war

Buried: Braine-Le-Comte Communal Cemetery, Belgium. Plot 1. Row B. Grave 9.

Braine-Le-Comte Communal Cemetery, Belgium.

Private A. Dowd grave
Photographs of cemetery and grave kindly supplied by Danielle Roubroeks.

He is also commemorated on the Middlesborough War Memorial.