Name
Benjamin George MacDowel
1894
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
22/09/1915
20
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant
Connaught Rangers
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CABARET-ROUGE BRITISH CEMETERY, SOUCHEZ
XVII. B. 36.
France
Headstone Inscription
PRO REGE IN TYRANNOS (For the King against tyrant)
UK & Other Memorials
Aldenham School Memorial, Aldenham
Pre War
Benjamin George MacDowel was the second son of Doctor Effingham Carroll & Mary Jane Eleanor (nee Buchanan).
He was educated at Aravon, Bray, Ireland and Aldenham School.
Wartime Service
At the outbreak of war he joined the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers and was appointed as 2nd Lieutenant on 14 Aug 1914. He was gazetted from 3 Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers to the Connaught Rangers in October, 1914, and by 10 Feb 1915 was in France.
He was killed in action on 22 Sep 1915.
Additional Information
His father Dr. E C MacDowel MD, Mall House, Sligo, ordered his headstone inscription: "PRO REGE IN TYRANNOS" - For the King against tyrant. His brother Francis LH Macdowel served from 1916 as Surgeon Lieutenant in Royal Navy and continued to serve in WW2 rising to the rank of Surgeon Captain.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Tony James
