TOWL, Douglas Edward
| Service Number: | 4808 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Unit: | 21st Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Dubbo, NSW, 1893 |
| Home Town: | Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Melbourne C of E Grammar School; Australian College of Pharmacy |
| Occupation: | Chemist |
| Died: | Non Battle Casualty, France, 23 August 1916 |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, MCC Roll of Honour 1914 - 1918 - Melbourne Cricket Club, Melbourne Grammar School WW1 Fallen Honour Roll |
World War 1 Service
| 4 Apr 1916: | Involvement 4808, 21st Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '13' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: '' | |
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| 4 Apr 1916: | Embarked 4808, 21st Infantry Battalion, HMAT Euripides, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Sharyn Roberts
Son of Charles Edward and Gertrude Harriett TOWL
DOUGLAS EDWARD TOWL who was killed in France on 23rd August 1916 was the eldest son of Mr. C. E. Towl. He was born in 1894 and entered the School in 1907. He took an active interest in cricket, football and lacrosse, and also did well in his School work. Leaving the School in 1911 he became apprenticed to his father, and
attended the Australian College of Pharmacy in 1914, where he did brilliantly, gaining the silver medal in Materia Medica, the bronze medal in Botany, certificate ofhonor in Chemistry, and all the lecturer's prizes for that year. The following year he finished his course at the College, and only missed the gold medal presented
by the Society by two marks.
Quiet and unassuming, he always tried to put duty first, and on becoming duly qualified in September 1915 he immediately volunteered. After being in camp some months he was sent to Salisbury Plain as Sergeant in reinforcements; thence he crossed to France as a Private in the 21st Battalion, but had only been there about a month when he was killed on his way to the front line trench. Keen in his work and his play, he stuck to the old School motto, and was an O.M. of whom the School might justly be proud.
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