Rowley Benjamin MADDEN

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MADDEN, Rowley Benjamin

Service Numbers:	1531, N414054
Enlisted:	29 January 1916
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	Lines of Communication Signals
Born:	Scone, New South Wales, 17 January 1898
Home Town:	Aberdeen, Upper Hunter Shire, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Postal Clerk
Died:	19 June 1971, aged 73 years, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW CATHOLIC 3-92. 27.
Memorials:

World War 1 Service

29 Jan 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1531, 34th Infantry Battalion
12 Jun 1919:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 1531, 34th Infantry Battalion

World War 2 Service

30 May 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, N414054, Lines of Communication Signals

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Biography contributed

From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery

Served during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.

54 years ago today, on the 21st June 1971, Private Rowley Benjamin Madden, 34th Battalion (Machine Gun Section, Reg No-1531), postal messenger from Aberdeen, New South Wales and Newcastle?, N.S.W., was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 73. CATHOLIC 3-92. 27.

Born at Scone, New South Wales on the 17th January 1898 to George Henry, died 12.11.1920, Scone, N.S.W., age 66, buried at Rouchel Brook Cemetery, N.S.W., from Aberdeen, N.S.W., and Annie J Madden nee Cumming, died 24.9.1902, Scone, N.S.W., age 34, mother of 3, sleeping at Rouchel Brook Cemetery, N.S.W.; husband of Veronica May Madden nee Farley, married 1921, Tamworth, N.S.W., died 9.11.1992, district unknown, age 91, sleeping here, Rowley enlisted on the 29th January 1916 at West Maitland, N.S.W.

Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A20 Hororata on the 2nd May 1916.
Disembarked Plymouth, England 23.6.1916.

Granted leave to England from 4.2.1918 to 20.2.1918.
Commenced return to Australia 12.6.1919.

Rowley arrived home on the 10th August 1919, being discharged on the 25th September 1919.

Mr. Madden’s name has been inscribed on The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall. Name not inscribed on the Stroud Showground Great War Memorial Grandstand.

I have placed poppies and a 1914-1918 WAR label at Rowley’s gravesite in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.

Not officially commemorated.

Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.

For more detail, see “Forever Remembered“.
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/.

Lest We Forget.

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