5/817 Regimental Sergeant Major Laurence Dowd, 5th Battalion Connaught Rangers

1887 Born New York

1911 census at Green St, Boyle

1914 Aug 12 Enlisted in Connaught Rangers

1915 Jul 21 Landed in Balkans

1919 Feb 20. died of heart failure at Ballywilliam Railway Station while travelling home on leave aged 32. CWGC Son of Mrs. Kate Dowd, of Green St., Boyle.

British Soldiers died in Ireland