CROZIER, Richard Walters
| Service Number: | 930 |
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| Enlisted: | 16 January 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Trooper |
| Last Unit: | 6th Light Horse Regiment |
| Born: | Numurkah, Victoria, Australia, 16 October 1891 |
| Home Town: | Numurkah, Moira, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
| Died: | Killed in action, Romani, Egypt, 4 August 1916, aged 24 years |
| Cemetery: |
Kantara War Memorial Cemetery Row B, Grave No. 34. TO MEMORY EVER DEAR |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Culcairn War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 16 Jan 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 930, 6th Light Horse Regiment | |
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| 22 May 1915: | Involvement Private, 930, 6th Light Horse Regiment, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '2' embarkation_place: Newcastle embarkation_ship: HMAT Forty-One embarkation_ship_number: A41 public_note: '' | |
| 22 May 1915: | Embarked Private, 930, 6th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Forty-One, Newcastle | |
| 4 Aug 1916: | Involvement Trooper, 930, 6th Light Horse Regiment, Battle for Pozières , --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 930 awm_unit: 6 Light Horse Regiment awm_rank: Trooper awm_died_date: 1916-08-04 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Richard’s mother passed away in Numurkah, Victoria during 1902 when he was only eleven years of age.
His family moved to Culcairn, NSW, and he and his brother Sydney James Crozier enlisted in Liverpool, NSW on practically the same date during January 1915. They were both in different Light Horse units when they left Australia but they both landed on Gallipoli 2 October 1915, as members of the 6th Light Horse Regiment.
Richard was wounded in action, Gallipoli, 25 November 1915 (gunshot wound, neck), and sent off to Malta. He rejoined the 6th Light Horse during early 1916 and was killed in action, Et Maler, near Romani, 4 August 1916.
His brother Sydney was present at the time of Richard’s death and wrote a letter to their father which was published in the Henty Observer during September 1916.
“Mr. T. Crozier, of Culcairn, has had a letter from his son, Trooper Syd Crozier, relating to another son Dick, who was killed in Egypt. He says: — You will have the bad news before this. Do not take it too hard Dad. I was with Dick to the last. He did not know what happened to him, and only lasted a little while after he was hit. We were getting it pretty hot all the morning and had to retire. We were riding over a little hill and a machine gun got on to us. He just said he was hit and rode a few yards and fell off his horse. He was hit through the heart. I know he would give his life for the cause again if it was wanted. We would all give our lived before we would let the Germans get the canal. All that was left of them have gone back. We had them here for three weeks. I captured a German, but I could not shoot as he would only put up his hands. Do not let Stan cut up. It will do no good. Dick had no pain at all. He died on the battlefield, a good soldier and a good mate.”
Richard’s brother, 759 Pte Sydney James Crozier, 6th Light Horse Regiment, died of wounds as a prisoner of the Turks on 29 March 1918, aged 23.
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