COWLEY, Robert
| Service Number: | 6230 |
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| Enlisted: | 5 April 1915, Bendigo, Victoria |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Australian Veterinary Corps |
| Born: | Curdies Inlet, Victoria, 19 January 1869 |
| Home Town: | Ballarat, Central Highlands, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Natural causes, Caulfield, Victoria, 5 May 1929, aged 60 years |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 1 Service
| 5 Apr 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 6230, Bendigo, Victoria | |
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| 11 Sep 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 6230, 5th Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: '' | |
| 11 Sep 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 6230, 5th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Euripides, Melbourne | |
| 30 May 1918: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 6230, Australian Veterinary Corps |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by John Edwards
"...6230 Private Robert Cowley, 5th Battalion from Ballarat, Victoria. A 43 year old labourer prior to enlisting on 5 April 1916, he embarked for overseas with the 20th Reinforcements from Melbourne on 11 September 1916 aboard HMAT Euripides (A14). Following further training in England, he proceeded to France where he joined the 5th Battalion on 22 December 1916. After several periods of illness, he was evacuated to England and returned to Australia arriving on 12 June 1918. Pte Cowley was discharged from the AIF on 27 July 1918 as medically unfit with the disability described as premature senility..." - SOURCE (www.awm.gov.au)
"It was a severe shock to the relatives of the late Mr. Robert Cowley when they received a telephone message last Sunday from the Caulfield Miliiary Hospital that he had passed away there early that morning, where he had been an inmate for about six weeks. His friends anticipated no serious developments, but instead expected him home early in this week. Very few were aware that the effects of the war had impaired his health to the extent that it had.
"Kindness in another's trouble, courage in his own," was characteristic of Bob, as he was familiarly called by all, and it is safe to say that there is scarcely one household in the forest country where he is not gratefully remembered for some generous deed. He was one of those large-hearted individuals rare in this world who always found time to help another in distress, and never counted the cost. When trouble or bereavement visited a neighbour, deceased was one of the first to give practical help." - from the Camperdown Chronicle 11 May 1929 (nla.gov.au)
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