Henry Thomas (Harry) CRABBE

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Service Number:	2798
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	37th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Gerangamete, Victoria, Australia, November 1896
Home Town:	Colac, Colac-Otway, Victoria
Schooling:	Colac School, Victoria, Australia
Occupation:	Dairyman
Died:	Killed in Action, Belgium, 4 October 1917
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Birregurra Christ Church Anglican Church Honor Roll, Birregurra Christ Church Anglican Church Memorial Window, Colac Soldier's Memorial, Gerangamete & District Roll of Honor The Great War, Menin Gate Memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing of the Ypres Salient), Yeodene Yeo District Roll of Honor

16 Dec 1916:	Involvement Private, 2798, 37th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Medic embarkation_ship_number: A7 public_note: ''
16 Dec 1916:	Embarked Private, 2798, 37th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Medic, Melbourne
4 Oct 1917:	Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 2798, 37th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, Killed in Action.

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Henry Thomas (Harry) Crabbe is the son of George Crabbe (1852-1938) and Anne Dwyer (1854-1933) of Yeo, Colac, Victoria.

He was a dairyman and lived in Gerangamete, Victoria. He enlisted in Melbourne when he was 19 years 11 months on the 2 October, 1916.

He left Melbourne on the 16 December 1916 on the "A7 Medic" and disembarked in Plymouth, England.

He was taken on strength in the field from Rouelles 2 August 1917.