CROWE, Edward
| Service Number: | 1699 |
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| Enlisted: | 28 July 1915, Keswick, South Australia |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1) |
| Born: | Queenstown, South Australia, 19 July 1887 |
| Home Town: | Queenstown, Port Adelaide Enfield, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Marist Brothers, Port Adelaide, South Australia |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Died of wounds, Belgium, 11 October 1917, aged 30 years |
| Cemetery: |
Ypres Reservoir Cemetery Grave I. H. 16. Personal Inscription OH LORD GRANT HIM ETERNAL REST.AMEN |
| Memorials: | Adelaide National War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Rosewater Marist Brothers Port Adelaide Roll of Honour, Somerton Park Sacred Heart College Men of "The Marist Brothers Old Scholars Association" Honor Roll WW1 |
World War 1 Service
| 28 Jul 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1699, Keswick, South Australia | |
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| 11 Jan 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 1699, 32nd Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Borda embarkation_ship_number: A30 public_note: '' | |
| 11 Jan 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 1699, 32nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Borda, Adelaide | |
| 11 Oct 1917: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 1699, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), Third Ypres, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 1699 awm_unit: 16 Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1917-10-11 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by John Edwards
"...1699 Private Edward Crowe, 32nd Battalion of Queenstown, SA. He embarked with the 2nd Reinforcements on HMAT Borda (A30) on 11 January 1916. He later transferred to the 16th Battalion. On 11 October 1917 he died of wounds received at Ypres, Belgium, aged 30 years. He had previously served in the Australian Naval & Military Expeditionary Force (AN&MEF) in New Guinea. He was awarded a Military Medal for actions in September 1917 when he showed great courage and coolness under fire when part of a convoy, collecting animals which had broken loose and were in danger of running into the Allied lines and made four trips forward carrying water that night. His brother 2186 Pte Patrick Augustine Crowe was killed in action on 28 March 1918..." - SOURCE (www.awm.gov.au)
"LATE PRIVATE E. S. CROWE.
Private Edward Stanislaus Crowe, who died of wounds received in action on October 11, 1917, was born in Queenstown on July 19, 1887, and was educated at the Marist Brothers' School, Port Adelaide, which he entered on the day of that institution opening. On war being declared he was the first to enlist from that school. He served in the New Guinea campaign, and afterwards re-enlisted for active service abroad. He was of a bright and cheerful disposition, and made a host of friends. A younger brother, Gunner P. A. Crowe, is serving at the front. Private Crowe was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Crowe, of Victoria street, Queenstown, and a grandson of Mr. John George, well and favourably known at Port Adelaide. R.I.P." - from the Adelaide Southern Cross 09 Nov 1917 (trove.nla.gov.au)
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