Captain William Edmund Downey

Regiment: Army Ordnance Department
Panel reference: Unknown
Date published: 28/12/1917
Killed in action: Yes
Date of death: 19/07/1917
Cemetery: Doiran Memorial, Greece
Information: Captain William Edmund Downey, Army Ordnance Department, lost his life in the Mediterranean while on his way to resume duty in the East, after a severe illness. He was the second son of Mr. Edmund Downey, O'Connell Street, Waterford, and husband of Mrs. Downey, 12 Dromard Terrace, Sandymount. Prior to receiving his commission in the A.O.D. in December, 1914, he had been for many years Electrical Engineer to the Corporation of Dublin. He went to France in 1915, and later in the same year was sent to Salonica. He was subsequently appointed Deputy Assistant Director of Ordnance in the 10th Division. Nineteen months' active service in the East he came home on leave, and, was on his way back to the East when the disaster occurred in which he is supposed to have met his death. He had been mentioned in despatches.