CROSBIE, Vincent Clive
| Service Number: | 748 |
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| Enlisted: | 4 January 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 35th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Cardiff, New South Wales, Australia, 26 July 1897 |
| Home Town: | Mayfield, Waratah, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | St Mary's Marist Bros' School Newcastle |
| Occupation: | Butcher |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 4 April 1918, aged 20 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Hamilton St Mary's Marist Bros' School Newcastle Honour Roll, Leichhardt War Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Waratah Memorial Gates |
World War 1 Service
| 4 Jan 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 748, 35th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 1 May 1916: | Embarked Private, 748, 35th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Benalla, Sydney | |
| 1 May 1916: | Involvement Private, 748, 35th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Benalla embarkation_ship_number: A24 public_note: '' | |
| 8 Jun 1916: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 748, 35th Infantry Battalion, Battle of Messines, GSW to buttock |
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Vincent Clive Crosbie was born in Cardiff, NSW on 26th July 1897. The family had moved from Armidale to Cardiff in 1896 after the deaths of four siblings each under one year old between 1890 and 1895. New South Wales was in the grip of a major drought and feeling the remnants of the 1890 depression with banks failing and unemployment rampant. In 1901 they moved to rent in Maitland Rd, Islington so his brothers (16, 15, 13 and 11 years old) could find work.
In 1903 his mother Augusta died with his father remarrying in 1905.
Vincent attended St Marys School, Perkins Street Newcastle with his address listed as Dora St, Mayfield and found work training as a butcher.
He served for four years with the Senior Cadets and two months with the 15th Infantry Battalion prior to his enlistment with the AIF on the 4th January 1916. When he enlisted his address was 19 Woodstock St, Mayfield and he was allocated to C Company, XII Platoon, 35th Battalion, at
Broadmeadow Army Camp, Newcastle.
He served at Messines, Passchendaele and Villers-Bretonneux as a Lewis gunner, being shot in the stomach at around 10am 4th April 1918, defending Villers-Bretonneux and dying with other wounded troopers being evacuated when their ambulance was hit by cannon shell fire on the rise on the Cachy to Villers-Bretonneux old road. They were buried beside the road.
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