GOWER, Max Walter
| Service Number: | 13407 |
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| Enlisted: | 16 February 1916, Adelaide, South Australia |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 14th Field Ambulance |
| Born: | Adelaide, South Australia, 27 August 1897 |
| Home Town: | Adelaide, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Currie Street Observation School |
| Occupation: | Assistant Cinematograph Operator |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 24 November 1916, aged 19 years |
| Cemetery: |
Guards Cemetery, Lesboeufs, Picardie Guards Cemetery, Lesboeufs, Peronne, Picardie, France, Rookwood Necropolis, Rookwood, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Memorials: | Adelaide National War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Gilberton Soldiers Memorial Swimming Reserve |
World War 1 Service
| 16 Feb 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Adelaide, South Australia | |
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| 1 Apr 1916: |
Involvement
AIF WW1, Private, 13407, Army Medical Corps (AIF), Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '23' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Kanowna embarkation_ship_number: A61 public_note: '' |
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| 1 Apr 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 13407, Army Medical Corps (AIF), HMAT Kanowna, Melbourne | |
| 24 Nov 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 13407, 14th Field Ambulance, 'The Winter Offensive' - Flers/Gueudecourt winter of 1916/17 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Nicholas Egan
Margaret Phillips
Club Historian Gilberton Amateur Swimming Club Inc.
After a brief stay in Egypt, Max embarked from Alexandria on the Corsian bound for England on 24 May 1916. He served for several months at the A.M.C. Post Office at Salisbury Plain before being transferred to Delhi Hospital at Tidsworth on 4 July 1916. He proceeded to France from England on 12 October 1916 and taken on strength with the 5 th Division A.A.M.C.at Etaples on 6 November 1916. He was attached for duty to the 8 th Field on 9 November 1916 and was killed in action on 24 November 1916. He was buried at Albert, France by Captain Chaplain F.P. Williams.
Max had attended the Currie Street Observation School and served three years in the 76 th Battalion Senior Cadets. He was exempt for the Citizen Military Forces as he was medically unfit.
Biography
"THE LATE PRIVATE M. W. GOWER.
Private Max W. Gower, who was killed in action in France on November 24, was the only son of Mr. and Mrs. F. Gower, of Nottage-terrace, Medindie (late of Hindley-street). He left Adelaide on March 30 last, and after a brief stay in Egypt went to Salisbury Plain, where he served in the A.M.C. Post-office for several months. In October he left for France, where he joined the 14th Australian Field Ambulance. Private Glower was only 19 years old, and was greatly esteemed by a large circle of friends." - from the Adelaide Chronicle 30 Dec 1916 (nla.gov.au)
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