Downey, George Walter

 Person: id 2840
University connections
USyd
Event flag
World War I
Family name
Downey
Given name(s)
George Walter
Initials
G.W.
Gender
Male
Naming note
1936 Name Change: Douglas Macdonald Stewart
Survived
Survived WWI
OCRd book entry or other narrative
Arts I (e) and Med. : Warrant Officer, 5th Battn. and A.A.M.C., A.I.F., France. Enlisting 4th December, 1916, and sailing 29th February, 1917, on troopship "Ballarat "which was torpedoed off Plymouth, joined 5th Battn. in France and served with it until wounded at Passchendaele in September. Later transferred to 3rd Australian Casualty Clearing Station as medically unfit for Infantry, remaining there until shell shocked near Bapaume and invalided to Australia, arriving in May, 1918. Early education at Fort St. High School.
Religion
Church of England
Visible notes
Also known as George Walter Elliott, Dr EE Elliott, George Walter Stuart, Eric Maxwell Thomson, David Stewart (1933) he officially changes his name in 1936 to Douglas MacDonald Stewart.
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