LOWE, Claude Harold
| Service Number: | 1705 |
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| Enlisted: | 26 March 1915, Broadmeadows, Vic. |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 8th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Geelong, Victoria, Australia, 1892 |
| Home Town: | Chilwell, Geelong, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Grocer |
| Died: | Repatriation Hospital, Caulfield, Victoria, Australia, 20 March 1939, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Preston General Cemetery, Bundoora, Victoria E, Grave 4131 |
| Memorials: | Newtown All Saints Church Honour Roll, Newtown Chilwell State School Roll of Honor |
World War 1 Service
| 26 Mar 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1705, 8th Infantry Battalion, Broadmeadows, Vic. | |
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| 14 Apr 1915: | Involvement Private, 1705, 8th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '9' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Wiltshire embarkation_ship_number: A18 public_note: '' | |
| 14 Apr 1915: | Embarked Private, 1705, 8th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Wiltshire, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of Alexander LOWE and Magdalene LOWE nee CRAIG, 27 Bloomsbury Street, Chilwell, Geelong, Victoria
Husband of Clarissa Barclay LOWE nee HAZELDINE
Claude was a member of the Loyal Preston P.A.F.S. No 72 Lodge.
He served in Egypt, Gallipoli and on the Western Front
Embarked Melbourne, 13 April 1915.
Joined Bn at Gallipoli, 26 May 1915.
Admitted to 2nd Australian Field Ambulance, 26 June 1915 (diarrhoea); rejoined unit same day.
Wounded in action, 7 August 1915 (shock), and admitted to 2nd Australian Field Ambulance Dressing Station; rejoined unit, 9 August 1915.
Disembarked Alexandria, 7 January 1916 (general Gallipoli evacuation).
Embarked Alexandria to join the British Expeditionary Force, 26 March 1916; disembarked Marseilles, France, 31 March 1916.
Wounded in action, 25 July 1916 (sprained left ankle); admitted to 1st Stationary Hospital, Rouen, 26 July 1916; tranmsferred to Convalescent Depot, Rouen, 27 July 1916; rejoined Bn, in the field, 25 August 1916.
Admitted to New Zealand Stationary Hospital, Amiens, 30 November 1916 (bronchitis); transferred to Ambulance Train No 5, 4 December 1916, and admitted to 8th General Hospital, Rouen. Transferred to England, 9 December 1916, and admitted to 3rd Southern General Hospital, 11 December 1916 (debility: slight). Transferred to 3rd Auxiliary Hospital, Dartford, 22 January 1917; discharged to No 2 Command Depot, Weymouth, 29 January 1917.
Marched into No 3 Command Depot, Hurdcott, 22 March 1917.
Proceeded overseas to France, 19 April 1917; rejoined unit, in the field, 10 May 1917.
Admitted to 1st Australian Division Rest Station, 23 October 1917 (debility), and transferred same day to 3rd Canadian Casualty Clearing Station; to 7th Canadian General Hospital, Etaples, 24 October 1917; to No 6 Convalescent Depot, 9 November 1917; to 1st Australian Division Base Depot, Havre, 16 November 1917.
Transferred to England, 19 December 1917.
Commenced return to Australia on board HS 'Durham Castle', 10 March 1918; discharged, Melbourne, 26 August 1918 as medically unfit: chronic bronchitis.
LOWE. — On March 20 at the Repatriation Hospital, Caulfield, Claude Harold, dearly loved husband of Clarissa Lowe, loving father of Harold and Merle, of 39 Southern-
hay-street, Regent: dear brother of Alex, Ernest, William, Alice (deceased), Charles and Percy: aged 47 years. Late 8th Battalion, A.l.F. An Anzac.
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