Gordon Frank McDowell

Gunner · NZ #288538 · R2 Patrol

What this roll records

CWGC: Trooper Gordon Frank McDowell, service no. 288538, New Zealand Armoured Corps (Divisional Cavalry Regt) and Long Range Desert Group. Died 3 August 1944, aged 23 (Italy). Buried at Florence War Cemetery, grave VII.A.2, Italy. Note: CWGC records his rank as Trooper; the roll carries him as Gunner. (CWGC confirms service no. 288538; the roll had 288553 in error.) Source: Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Cenotaph record linked; matched by name (Gordon Frank McDowell) — Cenotaph service number 288538 differs from sheet (likely typo, verify). Source: Auckland War Memorial Museum Online Cenotaph.

Aged 23 at death. Buried/commemorated: Florence War Cemetery, Italy (VII.A.2). Farmer in civilian life. Embarked/served with New Zealand Artillery. Son of Frank Meffin McDowell and Jean Montgomerie McDowell, of Richmond, Nelson. Source: Auckland War Memorial Museum Online Cenotaph.

New Zealand (A) Squadron, LRDG — R2 Patrol at disbandment, 10 December 1943. Source: Brendan O’Carroll, ‘The Long Range Desert Group in the Aegean’ (Appendix IV, New Zealand (A) Squadron Disbandment Roll, 10 December 1943).

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Where this comes from

• Missing info added from the LRDG Preservation Society’s Troopers roll.
• Additional sources (AWMM Online Cenotaph). Nominal Roll 2NZEF No. 9, p.247. Unit history: Loughnan, R. (1963). Divisional Cavalry (p.354). External links: Commonwealth War Graves Commission: https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2379009

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