Lance Corporal Robert Dowman

Army Number: 10194

Battalion: 1st Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Bormn ay Metheringham, Lincs, Son of Charles and Mary Dowman, of Kirkby Road, Thorpe, Sleaford, Lincolnshire.He was a agricultural laborer prior to enlisting 22nfd November 1906, at Newark, Notts. He served in India from 5th January 1909 until 3rd November 1914. He wont to France 4th November 1914. He was appointed Lance Corporal 28th February 1915 and was Killed in action, 12th March 1915 during the counter-attack by the Germans at Neuve Chapelle, France.

Commemorated: Le Touret Memorial, France. Panel 26 and 27.