World War 1 Service

16 Jul 1917: Involvement Australian Army Chaplains' Department

16 Jul 1917: Embarked Australian Army Chaplains' Department, HMAT Port Melbourne, Sydney

OBITUARY. — Rev. F. V. Dowling, M.A.

A very large number of people, whether Congregationalists or not, will hear with sincere regret of the death of Rev. Frank Vincent Dowling.

M.A., which occurred on April 25, in St. Martin's Hospital, where he had been brought from Ipswich for special treatment. Mr. Dowling was the minister of the Central Congregational Church, Ipswich, and had a very useful and honourable career. He was an Adelaide boy, and received his education in Sydney University, where he graduated M.A., and at Camden College, where he received his theological training. He held pastorates in West Australia, North Sydney, Hobart and Ipswich, and in the last mentioned place he had ministered for the past five years with conspicuous success. He spent two years with the military forces in France as chaplain, and was one of the most devoted and popular of all the padres sent out from Australia. On his return home at the end of the war he acted as director of the Australian activities of the London Missionary Society, a work in which he was always an intense enthusiast. He held the highest offices in the gift of the denomination to which he belonged. In 1925-27 he was President of the Congregational Union of Australia and New Zealand. He had also held the office of President of the Congregational Union in West Australia, New South Wales, Tasmania, and Queensland. Mr. Dowling was a preacher of great power and ability, and a man of scholarly mind. He lectured on New Testament introduction in the United Faculty of the Presbyterian. Methodist, and Congregational Churches. He leaves a widow, but was without children.

Queenslander (Brisbane, Qld. : 1866 - 1939), Thursday 1 May 1930, page 19