Evening Telegraph, 4th October 1944
Rushden Guardsman Wins M.M. - ‘Good Work While in Action’
The award of the Military Medal has been made to Guardsman John Leopold Downing, Grenadier Guards, of 28 Oswald-road, Rushden, who is serving on the Central Mediterranean.
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Jack Downing and
his Military Medal
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In a letter received by his wife, Guardsman Downing said that his C.O. had told him it was for ‘good work while in action’.
Guardsman Downing has been in the Army for over four years and abroad since February 1942, when he went to North Africa. He is 32, used to work for Mr. R. Marriott, builder, and is an old scholar of Newton-road School.
As a footballer he used to be quite well-known in the town and played for Rushden Town Reserves and other clubs. He held an interest in boxing and has won a medal for this since being in the Army. He was slightly wounded in July of this year.
He is the second son of Mrs F. A. Downing of Weston Favell, Northampton. A younger brother is in the Army in this country. Two others died last year within a short time of one another, one while serving with the Army in India. [R S Downing]
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