The Children of Susannah Jillett and Charles
Dowdell, continuing with Charles Dowdell Junior and his family.
Photo of Camels. Captain Bob Weddell, Lieutenant Alan Henderson and Lieutenant Bert Layh on an afternoon stroll with camels
Charles Dowdell Jnr Family
C. Charles Dowdell married Martha Marshall
1.
Clara
Martha Dowdell married Harry Hancock
2. Louisa Madeleine Dowdell married Colin Matcham Pitt
3. Ella Dowdell
4. Amy Mona Dowdell married Angel Money
5. Dr Charles Dowdell Junior
6. Frank Percival Dowdell married Annie Francis Theresa Meredith
7. Jessie Isabel Dowdell married George Henderson
8. Leslie Gerald Dowdell married Ethel May Peers
9. May Gertrude Dowdell
10. Monita Dowdell
11. Douglas Ludlow Dowdell married Enid Karla Oliphant
2. Louisa Madeleine Dowdell married Colin Matcham Pitt
3. Ella Dowdell
4. Amy Mona Dowdell married Angel Money
5. Dr Charles Dowdell Junior
6. Frank Percival Dowdell married Annie Francis Theresa Meredith
7. Jessie Isabel Dowdell married George Henderson
8. Leslie Gerald Dowdell married Ethel May Peers
9. May Gertrude Dowdell
10. Monita Dowdell
11. Douglas Ludlow Dowdell married Enid Karla Oliphant
1. Clara married Rev Henry Charles
Hancock. He was the Minister at St David's, Hobart.
1.1 John Eliot Hancock 31st May 1885. His
mother Clara had died in 1887, and he was living
with his grandmother, as his father was in England. He was sent back to England,
and enlisted there
.
He was
employed by Sime Darby and Co as a Merchant in the Mellaca Straits. He has no
known grave. He was a Captain in the 7th
Battalion Norfolk Regiment, and was killed at the Battle of Chambrai 21st March
1918. He was awarded the DSO. He is named on the Arras Memorial in France.
‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty.
Owing to his company commander being seriously wounded, he took
command of the left company in an attack. ‘When they came under heavy
machine-gun fire he organised a frontal attack while he, with two
N.C.O.’s, rushed across the open from a flank, killed or wounded all the
gun team and put the guns out of action. He himself killed six
men. In the subsequent fighting he showed great initiative in clearing the
houses in a village and directing the advance.’
London Gazette 4th March 1918
The Arras Memorial is a World War I memorial in France, located in the Faubourg d'Amiens British
Cemetery, in the
western part of the town of Arras. The memorial commemorates
34,785 soldiers of the forces of the United Kingdom, South Africa and New
Zealand, with no known grave, who died in the Arras sector between the spring
of 1916 and 7 August 1918.
4.1 Amy
Dowdell married Dr Angel Money.
4.1 Money, Reginald Angel (1897 - 1984)
CBE 1943; MC 1917; ED; MRCS and FRCS 1932; MB ChM
Sydney 1923; FRACS 1931.
Born 3 March 1897
Sydney, Australia Died 16
January 1984
Occupation Neurosurgeon
Reginald Money's early education was at Sydney Grammar School where he was captain of the school in 1913. He began his medical studies at the University of Sydney in 1914 but shortly after the outbreak of war he interrupted his course and enlisted as a gunner in the First Australian Imperial Force. He was later commissioned as Lieutenant in the Field Artillery and was awarded the Military Cross.
After demobilisation he returned to his medical studies and qualified in 1923 with first class honours, having been awarded the Mills Prize for surgery and the Sandes Prize for medicine. He served as resident medical officer, registrar and medical superintendent at Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, before being appointed assistant surgeon and tutor in surgery from 1928 to 1937. He passed the FRACS in 1931 and the FRCS in the following year. Visiting the United States at this time he was greatly inspired by the work of Dr Howard Naffziger in California, operating on the brain using the new techniques of Dr Harvey Cushing. He decided to specialise in neurosurgery and gained further experience visiting Harvey Cushing in Boston, A W Adson at the Mayo Clinic, Hugh Cairns at the London Hospital and de Martel in Paris.
In 1937 he was appointed honorary assistant surgeon and lecturer in traumatic neurosurgery at the Royal Alfred Hospital, Sydney, and in the following year was additionally honorary surgeon at the Royal North Shore Hospital. He was instrumental in setting up the first fully equipped department of neurosurgery in Australia at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in 1938.
Shortly after the outbreak of the second world war he again joined the services and was Colonel in the Royal Australian Army Medical Corps, commanding the 2nd/6th Australian General Hospital in the Middle East, Greece and Crete before returning to Northern Australia. His services were recognised by his appointment as Commander of the Order of the British Empire and the award of the Efficiency Decoration.
At the end of the war he returned to his
hospital appointments in Sydney and served twice as President of the
Neurosurgical Society of Australia in 1953 and 1965. He was made a director on
the board of the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in 1953 and served as Vice-Chairman
from 1968 to 1973. Retiring from the active staff of the hospital he was
appointed consulting neurosurgeon in 1957. His professional interests continued
and from 1961 to 1969 he served as a member of the Traffic Injury Committee of
the National Health and Medical Research Council of the Commonwealth of
Australia. He contributed extensively to professional journals about his
military and civilian experience.Apart from his neurosurgical commitments he was interested in farming, horse-racing, tennis and golf. He married Dorothy Jean Wilkinson in 1937 and they had two daughters, Angela (Raymond) and Carole (Roussel) neither of whom has taken up medicine.
Towards the end of his life when the department of neurosurgery at Prince Alfred Hospital moved from its original site to a new building, the board of the Hospital named it the R A Money department of neurosurgery in recognition of his contributions to the Hospital and to neurosurgery. He died on 16 January 1984, aged 86, survived by his wife, daughters and two grandsons.
Sources used to compile this
entry: [Med J Aust 1984, 140, 189].
Served World War I and World War II
Honouring a pioneer:
daughters’ gift paves the way for neuroscience
Rex Money
On a day when the
University of Sydney community comes together to support two important causes,
two sisters dedicate a special gift to the University in memory of their
father; a great Australian, a distinguished clinician and a respected teacher.
The late Dr Reginald Angel
(Rex) Money, an alumnus of the Sydney Medical School, was a pioneer of
neurosurgery in Australia whose dedication to the pursuit of excellence in
medicine continues to inspire his present-day counterparts.
Today Dr Money’s daughters,
Carole Roussel and Angela Raymond, honour their father’s remarkable legacy with
a generous gift that will help pave the way for future generations of
neurosurgeons through the ‘RA Money Postgraduate Research Scholarship in
Neuroscience’.
“Our father dedicated his
life to improving the health and lives of so many people,” says Mrs Roussel.
“He was a charismatic man who strove for perfection in his work and who earned
the respect and affection of his colleagues and patients.
“We are delighted to be
supporting the University’s Pave the Way initiative and to be assisting postgraduate students as they follow in
our father’s footsteps.”
Mrs Raymond says she
inherited an appreciation of medicine from her father and is happy that there
are young people who will benefit from the scholarship she helped establish. “I
would have loved to have studied medicine and now I love the idea that I can
help someone else realise their potential.”
Dr Money’s devotion to
neurosurgery began while on a trip to America in 1928, where he first saw
surgery on the brain being performed by Dr Howard Naffziger, using the new
techniques of the great Dr Harvey Cushing. Dr Money was so impressed by
what he saw that he resolved to devote his professional career towards surgery
of the nervous system. He travelled further afield, visiting surgical
centres in London, Liverpool, Edinburgh, Paris, Berlin and Vienna, before
returning to Australia armed with the basic neurosurgical instruments and
techniques to establish the specialty as a branch of general surgery.
“Dr Money was the foremost
authority on neurosurgery in Australia for many years,” said Professor Bruce
Robinson, Dean of Sydney Medical School. “His trips abroad were unusual for
that era, but the insights and techniques he learnt from visiting leading
neurosurgical centres around the world really drove the advancement of
neurosurgery in Australia.
“The generosity of his
daughters, Mrs Roussel and Mrs Raymond, will ensure that his legacy and impact
on the study and practice of neuroscience in Australia continues for many
generations to come.”
Over his years of practice,
Dr Money gained a national and international reputation as a surgeon and
teacher. He played a key role in establishing one of the first fully equipped
departments of neurosurgery in Australia, based at Royal Prince Alfred
Hospital. Opened in March 1938, the department had its own wards, operating
theater and x-ray facilities.
In addition to his
practice, Dr Money was a surgical tutor until 1938, before commencing as a
lecturer on head and spinal injuries at the Sydney University Medical School.
Then in 1940, Dr Money took
leave from the hospital and lecturing to join the Australian Imperial Forces,
serving as Colonel commanding the 6th Australian General Hospital in
the Middle East, Greece and Crete from 1940 to 1943. His outstanding war
service was recognised in 1943 when he was made Commander of the Order of the
British Empire.
In the years following
World War Two, Dr Money resumed his active practice as a neurosurgeon, with his
main appointment at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. During his tenure at
the hospital Dr Money dedicated his energy towards establishing and expanding
the Department of Neurosurgery, and served as Vice-Chairman of the Board from
1968 until 1973. In honour of Dr Money’s significant contribution to Royal
Prince Alfred Hospital, in 1983 the hospital named the vastly upgraded
Neurosurgical Unit the R.A. Money Department of Neurosurgery.
Now, through the ‘RA Money
Postgraduate Research Scholarship in Neuroscience’, Dr Money’s impact on
medicine in Australia will be forever etched into the fabric of the University
and passed on to future medical pioneers.
Reference:
Dr. Geoffrey Vanderfield.
(1984) Dr. Reginald Angel Money: A eulogy given by Dr. Geoffrey Vanderfield at
his funeral service at All Saints Church Woollahra on January 19th
1984. RPA Magazine, Volume 82(318), 28.
7. Jessie Isabel Dowdell married George
Henderson.
7.1 Alan Dudley Henderson d WWI his brother
7.2 Rupert Howard Henderson d WWI, his
brother
7.3 Rev Kenneth Thorne Henderson served WW1 He returned to Australia
7.3.1 Margaret
Mary Henderson served WWII
7.3.2 Barbara
June Henderson served WWII
7.3.3 Kenneth
Graham Henderson RAAF WWII
Henderson Brothers
Alan Dudley Henderson 7th Battalion 2nd Lieutenant Henderson left Australia on the Hororata on 19th October 1914. He died on board the transport "Seang Chong" on 30th April 1915 of wounds received in action near the Dardenelles. He was buried at sea.
The details on his application for a commission with the Army had the following information :-
Lieutenant Alan Henderson died of
wounds and was buried at sea. He is
remembered on Panel 27 at Lone Pine Memorial
One mention Captain Rupert Henderson received in the despatches was as follows:
"Acted as CO of the Battalion on the
25th when all senior officers had been killed or wounded. On the 25th and 26th
he displayed conspicuous gallantry in rallying all the men of all battalions
under particular heavy fire. (Reported by Lt Col R.Cartside Commanding
Battalion).
The story of Alan and Rupert
Henderson has been told by their niece, Margaret Henderson. The book is very interesting reading, and she
had available a suitcase full of letters the boys wrote to their mother Jessie
Isabel Marshall.
Margaret was a lady well before
her time, and studied medicine in 1930's. Her father Kenneth was a padre and
served in France. He also wrote a book Khaki
and Cassock, published in 1919.
I have had access to the family letters of Rupert and Alan, written from the Transport SS Hororata and from the camp at Mena in Egypt. I have been able to transcribe these letters which were published as “The Journey to Gallipoli” by Hellass Ink Publishing 2004. This I owe to my friend, Maggie Helass. The original letters are now in the archives of their old school, Trinity Grammar School, Kew, available to a new generation of Victorians.
Alan was shot during the landing, taken on board a transport for Alexandria, but died the next day and was buried at sea.
Rupert was killed on 8 May in the battle of Krithia on Cape Helles, having been temporarily in charge of the Battalion through the injury or death of his senior officers. He is buried in Redoubt Cemetery, Helles.
In 1918 my father, Kenneth, recorded his experiences as a chaplain in the mud and blood of Flanders in a book “Khaki and Cassock”, illustrated by Napier Waller and published by Melville and Mullen Pty Ltd in 1919.
The Henderson family was literate
and close-knit, a product of their strong Christian faith and the years of
peace following the Depression of the 1890s, the Boxer Rising, the Boer War and
Federation.
Three Henderson brothers saw
service in World War I and two (Rupert and Alan) died in Gallipoli. Kenneth
served in France on the Somme as a Chaplain to the Forces and was invalided
home in 1918. Much of his experience is recorded in his book Khaki and
Cassock, published in 1919.
"On the outbreak of war in
August 1914 both Rupert and Alan joined the 7th Battalion, 2nd Infantry
Brigade, of the 1st AIF. Rupert as Captain and Alan initially as a sergeant.
His commission appears to have come through within a few weeks. Kenneth was
about to be ordained in December 1914 and married in January, so that his
enlistment was deferred.
Rupert was then aged 22 and Alan
20. They had the full support of their parents who shared the common tide of
patriotic fervour and enthusiasm for the cause of Empire. George G Henderson
was personally known to their Commanding Officer, Colonel “Pompey” Elliott.
They left behind two young
sisters, Peggy, a lively schoolgirl of 14 and Lynette, aged six but still known
to them as Baby.
These letters have survived 90
years as a random collection in an old suitcase, many in their original
envelopes and mercifully preserved from damp and marauding insects. Some bear
Egyptian stamps and some are stamped by the Army postal service. A few of the
later letters are “Passed by Censor” but the only deletion apparent is
obviously an afterthought on the part of the writer.
The chief intent of the letters
was the reassurance of their parents as to their health and safety. They
therefore convey nothing of the horror and chaos of warfare, except for Rupert’s
last rushed and crowded card written on the Gallipoli battlefield a few days
before his death. Their only complaints are of the tedium of camp life and the
uncertainty of their future movements.
A convincing picture of the true
carnage and waste of young lives emerges from the letters of their CO Colonel
“Pompey” Elliott, to their parents soon after their deaths in action.
The letters of Rupert and Alan
emphasise the strong bonds of affection between the boys and their parents and
sisters, and the strong Christian faith in the family. They had many friends
and there must have been many other letters, particularly to the elder brother,
Kenneth, to which we have no access
now.
The letters are their sole
legacy. One or two minor omissions have been dictated by personal
considerations and the expressed wishes of the boys themselves. I am indebted
to Maggie Helass for helping me to publish them.
Margaret Henderson September
2004
In late 1945 Margaret was recruited by the Red Cross for postwar civilian work and was posted to Malaya as senior medical officer working on a range of nutritional problems and tropical diseases. She continued her work for the Red Cross in London and Switzerland and developed an interest in specialising in respiratory and thoracic medicine.
In 1947 Margaret passed the examinations in London for membership of the Royal College of Physicians. To afford the return passage home, Margaret volunteered as an escort and assistant surgeon for the Overseas League on the Ormonde, bound for Melbourne with a group of 50 orphan boys. On the night of October 29, 1947 Margaret diagnosed an acute case of appendicitis and operated successfully. The boy made a swift recovery and was able to go sightseeing in Fremantle. It was a rare event for a woman to operate at sea.
In Melbourne Margaret became an honorary physician from 1947-75 and a specialist physician from 1976-82 at RMH. She was also a consultant physician at the Queen Victoria Hospital for Women, vice-president of the Royal District Nursing Service and member of their management committee for 18 years.
In 1976 she was awarded the Order of the British Empire for services to medicine, a rare distinction in that era.
Margaret Mary Henderson 1915 - 1917. She lived to be 102 years of age.
Dr. Margaret Henderson O.B.E. shares the story of her father and uncles: three Henderson brothers who served in the Great War
The "Journey to Gallipoli" can be read online.
https://anzaccentenary.vic.gov.au/wp-content/.../The-Journey-to-Gallipoli-for-web.pdf
Capt. Rupert
Howard Henderson 7th Batt. C Coy.2nd Inf.Brig.A.I.F. died 8th/15th
May 1915, killed on the field.
He also
departed Australia on the Hororata, 19th October 1914, and was mentioned:
The Army Corp Commander has very
much pleasure in publishing these names which have been brought to his notice
for having performed varius act of conspicuous gallantry or valuable service
during the period from 25th April to 5th May 1915. The General Commander M.E.F. mentioned this
name to the Secretary of State for War on account of special services. Since killed.
Mentioned in Despatches in London
Gazette by General Sir Ian Hamilton. His
father communicated for 9 years with the AIF to determine the headstones,
graves and Mention in Despatches.
12 May 1915
Cemetery:
|
Redoubt
Cemetery Helles Gallipoli
|
John Eliot Hancock 31st May
1885. His mother Clara had died in 1887, and he was living with his grandmother,
as his father was in England. He was sent back to England, and enlisted there.
He was employed by Sime Darby and Co as a Merchant
in the Mellaca Straits. He has no known grave.
He was a Captain in the 7th Battalion Norfolk Regiment, and was killed at
the Battle of Chambrai 21st March 1918.
He was awarded the DSO. He is
named on the Arras Memorial in France.
‘For
conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. Owing to his company
commander being seriously wounded, he took command of the left company
in an attack. ‘When they came under heavy machine-gun fire he organised a
frontal attack while he, with two N.C.O.’s, rushed across the open from a
flank, killed or wounded all the gun team and put the guns out
of action. He himself killed six men. In the subsequent fighting he showed
great initiative in clearing the houses in a village and directing the
advance.’
London Gazette 4th March 1918
The Arras Memorial is a World War I memorial in France, located in the Faubourg d'Amiens British
Cemetery, in the
western part of the town of Arras. The memorial commemorates
34,785 soldiers of the forces of the United Kingdom, South Africa and New
Zealand, with no known grave, who died in the Arras sector between the spring
of 1916 and 7 August 1918.
John Eliot
Hancock
Captain John Eliot
Hancock Norfolk Regiment 21st Mach 1918 NW/6.19354
Went to London to live with his father after the death of his
mother. Worked in Malaya, joined the
Norfolk Regiment.[1]
Lt Col Prior noted in his account that, ‘It
would be impossible to set out all the extraordinary incidents of that glorious
day’ how Hancock and his sergeant major rushed an enemy machine gun position
and settled a bet as to who would kill most Boches. This was won by Hancock,
but Sergeant-Major Neale always contends that he was unduly handicapped by
having to use his bayonet, whilst Hancock had a revolver. How a runner of ‘D’ Company,
without assistance, took over seventy prisoners, including a staff officer. How
Worn, wounded in the first hundred yards of the advance, carried on with his
platoon until he reached his final objective, the railway station, and
consolidated his position. How Thompson of ‘B’ Company, who in the darkness of
the night prior to the attack had fallen down and very badly sprained his
ankle, deliberately refused to go sick, and, with the aid of his servant,
limped over in front of his platoon, and carried on until the objective was
reached. How one man of ‘A’ Company having very daringly and very foolishly
penetrated an enemy dugout, leaving his rifle outside, knocked down the Bosche
who thrust his pistol at his head, seized the pistol and harried his opponent
by the vigorous application of the butt end.’
London Gazette 4th February 1918
HANCOCK, JOHN ELIOT, Temporary Lieut., Norfolk Regt.
‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. Owing to his company commander being seriously wounded, he took command of the left company in an attack. ‘When they came under heavy machine-gun fire he organised a frontal attack while he, with two N.C.O.’s, rushed across the open from a flank, killed or wounded all the gun team and put the guns out of action. He himself killed six men. In the subsequent fighting he showed great initiative in clearing the houses in a village and directing the advance.’
HANCOCK, JOHN ELIOT, Temporary Lieut., Norfolk Regt.
‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. Owing to his company commander being seriously wounded, he took command of the left company in an attack. ‘When they came under heavy machine-gun fire he organised a frontal attack while he, with two N.C.O.’s, rushed across the open from a flank, killed or wounded all the gun team and put the guns out of action. He himself killed six men. In the subsequent fighting he showed great initiative in clearing the houses in a village and directing the advance.’
11. Leslie Gerald Dowdell married Ethel May Peers
11.1 Douglas
Peers Dowdell WWII
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