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13544   Private Irwin McDowell
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Dated added: 30/12/2015   Last updated: 02/09/2021
Personal Details
Regiment/Service: 9th Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers (British Army)
Date Of Birth: 27/06/1895
Died: 01/07/1916 (Killed in Action)
Age: 21
Summary      
Irwin McDowell was the son of James and Eliza McDowell. He was born on 27th June 1895 in Clogher. He was one of nine known children. His father is a whitesmith. By 1911, Irwin was working as a general labourer. He was still living with the family in Clogher Tenements. He enlisted in his home town of Clogher. Private Irvine McDowell was serving with the 9th Battalion of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers when he was killed at the Battle of the Somme on 1st July 1916. He was one of four brothers who served.
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Cemetery Details
Cemetery: Thiepval Memorial
  Thiepval, Somme
Grave Ref: Face 4D-5B
CWGC Casualty 802623
Summary      
The Thiepval Memorial will be found on the D73, next to the village of Thiepval, off the main Bapaume to Albert road (D929). Each year a major ceremony is held at the memorial on 1 July. The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme is a war memorial to 72,337 missing British and South African servicemen who died in the Battles of the Somme of the First World War between 1915 and 1918, with no known grave. It is near the village of Thiepval, Picardy in France. Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, Thiepval has been described as "the greatest executed British work of monumental architecture of the twentieth century"
Local Memorial Details

No Memorial Name Townland
1 Clogher War Memorial - WWI - South West Face - Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Clogher
2 St. Macartan's Cathedral Tablet - WWI Clogher
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1 1901 Census lists McDowell family Lists "Irvan" as age 5 living with the family at house 15 in Clogher Tenements, Clogher
2 1911 Census lists McDowell family Lists "Irwin" as age 16 living with the family at house 3 in Clogher Tenements, Clogher
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