ROWLAND, Fredrick Charles
| Service Number: | 2779 |
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| Enlisted: | 11 July 1915, Liverpool, NSW |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 18th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia , 1897 |
| Home Town: | Gore Hill, Willoughby, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Tool Boy |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 4 August 1916 |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board, North Sydney Tramways Pictorial Honour Roll, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 11 Jul 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2779, 18th Infantry Battalion, Liverpool, NSW | |
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| 2 Nov 1915: | Involvement Private, 2779, 18th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: '' | |
| 2 Nov 1915: | Embarked Private, 2779, 18th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Euripides, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of Thomas and Barbra ROWLAND, Clegg Street, Gore Hill, New South Wales
Biography contributed by John Oakes
Frederick Charles Rowland was born at Bankstown about February 1897. He was employed as a tool collector in Sydney and Suburbs in the Maintenance Branch of the Tramways.
He enlisted at Liverpool on 1st July 1915 and gave his mother, Barbara Margaret Rowland of Gore Hill as his next of kin. He embarked on HMAT ‘Euripides’ and left Sydney on 2nd November 1915 to be taken on the strength of the 18th Battalion in Egypt on 5th February 1916. A few weeks after this he proceeded to join the British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front, disembarking at Marseilles on 25th March.
He was killed in action in France on 4th August 1917. He has no known grave. He is remembered on the Villers Bretonneux Memorial, France.
Rowland’s mother was paid a pension of 32/- per fortnight from 7th July 1917.
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