Service Details
Name:
 DOWNIE
Given Name:
 ROBERT GORDON
Initials:
 R G
Service No:
 X/45
Trade:
 R.S.M.
Rank:
 Warrant Officer Class I
Other Casualties of this Rank
Regiment:
 East African Artillery
Other Casualties from this Regiment
Unit:
 56 Bty., 301 Field Regt.
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Date of Death:
 1944-02-12
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Date of Birth:
 1918-05-05
Age:
 25
Cause of Death:
 Lost in S.S. Khedive Ismail (London). Sailing on 6 February 1944 from Kilindini Harbour at Mombasa, Kenya to Colombo, Ceylon in Convoy KR-8, the SS Khedive Ismail was attacked by a B1 type Japanese submarine. The Khedive Ismail was hit by two torpedoes. 1297 perished
Additional
Information:
Son of the Hon. J. W. Downie and Clara Downie, of Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia.
Commemoration
Country:
 Kenya
Other Casualties commemorated in Kenya
Cemetery:
 EAST AFRICA MEMORIAL
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Grave Reference:
 Column 13.

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