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ROWE, Sidney Richard
Personal Details
| Service Number: | 165 |
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| Enlisted: | 24 November 1915, Enlisted at Armidale, NSW |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 33rd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Hillgrove, New South Wales, Australia, 1889 |
| Home Town: | Hillgrove, Armidale Dumaresq, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Baker |
| Died: | Illness-Pneumonia, At Sea on board HMT D24, France, 2 November 1918 |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" No known grave, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Leichhardt War Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France) |
Service History
World War 1 Service
| 24 Nov 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 165, 33rd Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Armidale, NSW | |
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| 4 May 1916: | Involvement Private, 165, 33rd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Marathon embarkation_ship_number: A74 public_note: '' | |
| 4 May 1916: | Embarked Private, 165, 33rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Marathon, Sydney | |
| 20 Oct 1917: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 165, 33rd Infantry Battalion, Wounds to the arm and buttocks |
Personal Stories
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Carol Foster
Son of Charles Rowe Wood Street, Hillgrove, NSW
5 January 1918 - to hospital with Myalgia
6 March 1918 - to England with an abdominal tumour and returned to Australia on 19 October 1918 on board D24. He had been offered an operation but declined saying he would prefer for the Operation to be done in Australia
Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal