COWELL, Sidney Lewis
| Service Number: | 578 |
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| Enlisted: | 18 August 1914, Enlisted at Melbourne |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 6th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Apsley, Victoria, Australia, 21 August 1887 |
| Home Town: | Auburn, Boroondara, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Gallipoli, 15 August 1915, aged 27 years |
| Cemetery: |
Shrapnel Valley Cemetery, Gallipoli Plot 2, Row A, Grave 1 Headstone inscription reads: At rest |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 18 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 578, 6th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Melbourne | |
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| 18 Aug 1914: | Honoured British Empire Medal, British War Medal | |
| 19 Oct 1914: | Involvement Private, 578, 6th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Hororata embarkation_ship_number: A20 public_note: '' | |
| 19 Oct 1914: | Embarked Private, 578, 6th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Hororata, Melbourne | |
| 25 Apr 1915: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 578, 6th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, Slight wound to the hip | |
| 15 Aug 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 578, 6th Infantry Battalion, The August Offensive - Lone Pine, Suvla Bay, Sari Bair, The Nek and Hill 60 - Gallipoli, Quinn's Post |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Carol Foster
Son of Arthur Alexander Cowell and Jessie Lennox Cowell; husband of Emma Cowell of Stanhope Street, Daylesford, Victoria formerly of 19 Bayview Avenue, Auburn, Victoria and father of Sidney Ormond Cowell
Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
Biography contributed by Alison Knudsen
Son of Arthur Alexander COWELL and Janet "Jessie" Lennox COWELL (nee HAMILTON).
Brother to Jessie Mary COWELL, Louisa Jane COWELL, Frances Lennox COWELL, Henrietta Edith COWELL, Leslie COWELL, Henry Lennox COWELL, Francis Gilbert COWELL, Arthur Alexander COWELL, Emma Regina "Ina" COWELL.
Husband to Emma COWELL (nee HAUSER).
Father to Sydney Ormond COWELL born 1913
Biography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Private Sidney Cowell, of Auburn, Victoria lost a brother in the Boer War, Francis Gilbert Cowell of the Fourth Tasmanian Contingent, Second Imperial Bushmen. Francis died of disease on 25 November 1901 in Deelfontain, Cape Province, South Africa. He was 21 years of age.
Sidney was killed at Gallipoli on 15 August 1915 a week after his brother, Corporal Henry Lennox Cowell 8th Light Horse Regiment, was killed in the regiment’s disastrous charge at the Nek on 7 August 1915.
Sidney joined the 6th Battalion and was wounded in the hip during the landing at the Dardanelles. He was invalided to Malta, but had returned to the front only a month later. He was reported to be a first-class rifle shot, and was one of the first to be chosen for the position of sniper.
He had another brother, 880 Private Arthur Alexander Cowell, an original member of the 15th Battalion AIF, who was invalided home from the front after suffering a stroke.
It was reported that although the brothers were only a mile apart in the trenches, they were seldom able to see each other, owing to the danger of movement at Anzac. Their father, Arthur Alexander Cowell, formerly managed Brippick Station, and was well known in the Wimmera district of Victoria.
Another brother Leslie Cowell tried to enlist aged 38, in 1915, but his wife pleaded to the authorities that she could not manage 6 children by herself, and he was discharged from Broadmeadows Camp.
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