Part 2…
Once I had the tip from my mother that my great-grandfather may have served in the Boer War, I went hunting for any records. Sadly, I found no record of him in any of the records at either the National Archives or the War Memorial. There were, however, other items at the Memorial that related to other Dowsetts, a handful from both of the World Wars. It didn’t surprise me that there were others, but there were two Dowsetts that both saw active service at Gallipoli so I kept looking around. There was an Arthur (Jack) Dowsett from a relative’s Ancestry tree that I had seen, and now I had come up with a citation for Jack Dowsett at the Memorial and war records for a J A Dowsett at the Archives.
After sifting through the records for his enlistment details and any family information, comparing data from a few…
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