d g dowman

Private D G Dowman, 241030, 1/5th Welsh Regiment

Awarded the DCM for actions at Gallipoli

Also Mentioned in Dispatches on 12th Jan 1918

The London Gazette on 22nd October 1917 states;

"For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. During an attack on an enemy position he displayed the greatest coolness and gallantry, and in the later stages of the fight he, with a NCO, rushed an enemy trench and captured forty two prisoners."