Edward Allan CROZIER

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CROZIER, Edward Allan

Service Number:	WX11497
Enlisted:	9 April 1941
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/8th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Newcastle, Northumberland, England, 1 September 1902
Home Town:	Serpentine, Serpentine-Jarrahdale, Western Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Farm Hand
Died:	Explosion in Coal Mine, Collie, Western Australia, 7 July 1953, aged 50 years
Cemetery:	Collie General Cemetery, Western Australia
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World War 2 Service

9 Apr 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX11497, 2nd/8th Infantry Battalion
25 Feb 1946:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX11497, 2nd/8th Infantry Battalion

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Private Edward Allan Crozier (Service No:WX11497) enlisted in the AIF on 9 April 1941 with 10 Australian Garrison Battalion. Private Crozier served with 2/8 Infantry Battalion in the Middle East (9 September 1941 - 28 March 1942) and Darwin NT (May 1942 - June 1943), and was attached to 2/8 Battalion at Discharge on 25 February 1946.

Edward was born in Northumberland, England in 1902, tenth of eleven children of Nicholas Crozier (b1850 in Gosforth, Northumberland) and Jane Alcroft (b1864 in Newburn, Northumberland). Nicholas (a Coal Miner) and Jane (an Agricultural Labourer) married in Newcastle in 1885, and lived in Northumberland where they raised their family and Nicholas was a Coal Miner.

Edward started work as a Coal Miner, and in 1925 married his first wife Isabella Gowans (b1906 in Hartford, Northumberland) - Isabella was a Waitress in Mason. Edward and Isabella had divorced by 1927, and Edward immigrated in 1928, arriving in Fremantle on board the Hobsons Bay. Edward worked as a Farm Hand at Wubin via Dalwallinu, and in 1937 in Moora married Ruth Evelyn Pitt (b1917 in Perth, Western Australia). Edward and Ruth were living in Serpentine in 1941 when Edward enlisted in the AIF. Following his Discharge, they settled in Collie, where they raised their family and Edward was a Coal Miner at the Proprietary Mine until his death in 1953. Ruth (left a Widow with four children) remarried.

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