New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

3rd Reinforcements

Rank

Sapper

Serial

37503

About

Born in New Zealand

26 December 1893

Parents

Mother

Ellen Susan Dowdle

Father

Frank Dowdle

Residence

Hometown

Marton

Work

Occupation

Porter

Employer

New Zealand Railways

Personal Life

Marital Status

Single

Army Experience

Railway Engineers

World War I (1914-1918)

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British War Medal

Victory Medal

Death

Died at the age of 28

1 February 1922

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira: Online Cenotaph He Toa Taumata Rau.

New Zealand Archives Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, AABK 18805 W5537 47/0035134, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Vol.II, Roll No.45, Government Printer, Wellington, 1914-1919, p. 36.

How to cite this page

Anthony Byledbal, “Wilfred Prichard Dowdle (1893-1922)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/213