ROWE, Oswald Robert
| Service Number: | 560 |
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| Enlisted: | 22 August 1914, Enlisted at Randwick, NSW |
| Last Rank: | Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | 1st Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia, 1891 |
| Home Town: | Annandale, Leichhardt, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Stanmore Superior Public School, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Carrier |
| Died: | Died of wounds - wounds to the shoulder, arms and legs, 1st Australian Casualty Clearing Station, Gallipoli, Turkey, 5 November 1915 |
| Cemetery: |
Ari Burnu Cemetery, Gallipoli Row F, Grave 11 Chaplain W.C. Dexter officiated Headstone inscription reads: Greater love hath no man, |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 22 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Corporal, 560, Enlisted at Randwick, NSW | |
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| 18 Oct 1914: | Involvement Corporal, 560, 1st Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Afric embarkation_ship_number: A19 public_note: '' | |
| 18 Oct 1914: | Embarked Corporal, 560, 1st Infantry Battalion, HMAT Afric, Sydney | |
| 23 Jan 1915: | Promoted AIF WW1, Sergeant | |
| 5 Nov 1915: | Involvement Sergeant, 560, 1st Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 560 awm_unit: 1 Battalion awm_rank: Sergeant awm_died_date: 1915-11-05 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Carol Foster
Son of George Robert and Martha Jane Rowe of 196 Australia Street, Camperdown, NSW
Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal,Victory Medal
Biography contributed by Stephen Brooks
His younger brother, 2788 Sapper Stanley Rowe 7th Field Company Australian Engineers later died of wounds on 1 September 1918, aged 23.
According to his Red Cross wounded and missing file, Oswald Rowe was killed by shrapnel whilst waiting for a haircut at Anzac, in Poppy Valley, near Chatham’s Post, several hundred yards behind the lines, when he was hit by shrapnel from a Six-inch howitzer. He died soon after in the 1st Australian Casualty Clearing Station. He had previously been wounded in May 1915 just a fortnight after the Anzac Landing.
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