ROWE, Albert Henry
| Service Numbers: | Not yet discovered |
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| Enlisted: | 1 December 1914 |
| Last Rank: | Lieutenant Colonel |
| Last Unit: | 50th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Gawler, SA, 26 July 1894 |
| Home Town: | Gawler, Gawler, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Draughtsman |
| Memorials: | Gawler Council Gawler Men Who Answered the Call WW1 Roll of Honor, Gawler St George Anglican Church Honour Roll, Gawler War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 1 Dec 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1 | |
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| 27 Dec 1914: | Involvement AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 10th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Themistocles embarkation_ship_number: A32 public_note: '' | |
| 27 Dec 1914: | Embarked AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 10th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Themistocles, Melbourne | |
| 18 Nov 1918: | Involvement AIF WW1, Lieutenant Colonel, 50th Infantry Battalion | |
| 10 Jul 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Sharyn Roberts
Son of Harry Francis ROWE and Anita Hitchins nee HIGGINS
Biography
Extract from “The Fighting 10th”, Adelaide, Webb & Son, 1936 by C.B.L. Lock; kindly supplied courtesy of the 10th Bn AIF Association Committee, April 2015.
Born 26 July 1894.
At the outbreak of the Great War was residing at Gawler, where he was employed as a draughtsman by the engineering firm of James Martin & Co.
He was a compulsory trainee, and received his first commission as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 79th (Torrens) Infantry on 1 July 1913, and with same rank was subsequently transferred to the 80th (Gawler) Infantry, holding this commission at the time of joining the AIF.
He was appointed a 2nd Lieutenant in the AIF on 14 September 1914, and posted to the 1st reinforcements of the 10th Battalion. This quota of reinforcements was raised and encamped at Morphettville before the original Battalion embarked, and on 21 September 1914, marched with the original Battalion in the first AIF route-march through the city of Adelaide.
As O.C. Of this quota of reinforcements he entrained for Melbourne, and embarked on HMAT A32 Themistocles on 27 December 1914, and with the 2nd Australian Contingent proceeded to Egypt, arriving at Alexandria on 1 February 1915.
Upon disembarkation he accompanied his reinforcements to Zeitoun, near Cairo, where he remained for about a week, prior to joining the 10th in camp at Mena, Egypt on 8 February 1915.
He was posted to A Company, and subsequently embarked with the Battalion on the Ionian for the Dardanelles, and landed with his platoon from the destroyer Foxhound at the historic landing at Anzac on 25 April 1915.
That day he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, and on 28 August 1915 was wounded and forced to evacuate.
He proceeded to hospital in London, and rejoined the Battalion at Tel-El-Kebir on 2 January 1916.
At Gebel Habieta, on 5 March 1916, he was transferred to the 51st Battalion as Adjutant, which appointment he retained until 1 October 1916.
On 12 March 1916 he was promoted to the rank of Temporary Captain and on 16 March 1916 his substantive rank of Captain was confirmed.
On 5 June 1916 he embarked on the Ivernia with the 51st Battalion under Lieutenant-Colonel A M Ross, and disembarked at Marseilles, France on 12 June 1916, and on 2 October 1916 attained his majority.
He was subsequently wounded in France and awarded the Serbian Order of the White Eagle, 5th Class, vide London Gazette 13 February 1917.
For some considerable time he was 2nd in Command of the 51st Battalion and also temporarily commanded same.
From 18 November to 28 December1918, with rank of Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel, he temporarily commanded the 50th Battalion during the absence on furlough of Lieutenant-Colonel A G Salisbury, DSO.
He subsequently returned to South Australia, his services with the AIF terminating on 10 July 1919.
During his absence from Australia he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant in the 80th (Gawler) Infantry on 1 July 1915.
Returning to civil life, he resided at North Adelaide for several years, and accepted employment with Horwood Bagshaw Ltd at Mile Eng.
He married in England during the war, and subsequently proceeded to Ireland to take up an appointment in the brewing firm of Arthur Guinness & Sons, of Dublin.
On 11 November 1925, he was transferred to the Retired List of the Australian Military Forces.
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