TOWIE, Victor
| Service Number: | 1199 |
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| Enlisted: | 7 May 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 10th Light Horse Regiment |
| Born: | Lancashire, England, 25 May 1895 |
| Home Town: | Collie, Collie, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Log Hauler |
| Died: | Perth, Western Australia, 30 March 1963, aged 67 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
The Western Australian Garden of Remembrance, Nedlands, Western Australia |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 7 May 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1199, 11th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 2 Sep 1915: | Involvement Private, 1199, 10th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '3' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Anchises embarkation_ship_number: A68 public_note: '' | |
| 2 Sep 1915: | Embarked Private, 1199, 10th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Anchises, Fremantle | |
| 13 Nov 1915: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 10th Light Horse Regiment, 'in the field' at Gallipoli | |
| 20 Dec 1915: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 1199, 10th Light Horse Regiment, embarked Gallipoli for Alexandria | |
| 14 Jan 1917: | Promoted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 10th Light Horse Regiment, Masaid | |
| 4 May 1918: | Wounded AIF WW1, Corporal, 1199, 10th Light Horse Regiment, GSW knee | |
| 3 Aug 1918: | Embarked AIF WW1, Corporal, 1199, 10th Light Horse Regiment, embarked Suez for Australia per HS Karoola | |
| 30 Mar 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Corporal, 1199, 10th Light Horse Regiment |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Corporal Victor Towie (Service No: 1199) enlisted in the AIF on 7 May 1915 and embarked for Gallipoli with 11th Battalion on A68 Anchises on 2 September 1915. Private Towie transferred 'in the field' to 10th Light Horse Regiment on 13 November 1915. On 4 May 1918, Corporal Towie was WiA (GSW to his knee) at Gaza and embarked from Suez for the RTA on 3 August 1918 on board HS Karoola. Corporal Towie was Discharged on 30 March 1919.
The fifth of eleven children, Victor was born in 1895 in Lancashire, England to John Henry Towie (b1862 in Staffordshire, England) and Elizabeth Roden (b1870 in Lancashire, England). John (a Steel Works Labourer) and Elizabeth (a Spinner) married in 1881 in Lancashire where John worked as a Smelterer until 1906 when the family immigrated, arriving in Fremantle WA on board the Orontes. John and Elizabeth settled in Balbarrup, Manjimup WA. John was a Farmer there and in Jardanup, where the family moved in the early 1920s, before retiring to Manjimup.
Victor as worked as a Log Hauler in Collie WA, and in 1915 he enlisted in the AIF. In 1919 in Perth WA he married Ella Constancy Trestrail (b1895 in Willochra, South Australia). Victor and Ella lived in Manjimup and Perth where Victor was a Farmer until the mid 1930s when he bacame a Lift Attendant at the Commonwealth Bank Building in Perth. Wounded in WWI, Victor's knee did not heal and required frequent dressing changes - he was advised that amputation of his leg would too dangerous. However, by 1948, with advances in penicillin, his leg was amputated at Hollywood Hospital (Trove) and Victor continued working as a Lift Attendant until the mid 1950s. Victor died in 1963 and Ella in 1974.