Pre-war studio portrait of 582 Private (Pte) Travice Crowther, 15th Battalion, of Casino, NSW. A ...

Pre-war studio portrait of 582 Private (Pte) Travice Crowther, 15th Battalion, of Casino, NSW. A carpenter with three years service with the 5th Australian Light Horse, Citizens' Military Forces (CMF), before enlisting in November 1914, Pte Crowther left Australia for Egypt in December 1914 and took part in the Gallipoli landing on 25 April 1915. He was wounded in the arm by a Turkish bomb at Monash Valley on 17 May 1915, was promoted to Corporal (Cpl) in June 1915, and was evacuated to England suffering from enteritis in August 1915. Rejoining his unit in Egypt in March 1916, Cpl Crowther arrived in France for service on the Western Front in June 1916 and was promoted to Sergeant (Sgt) in October 1916. He was reported missing after the 15th Battalion raided German positions at Flers on the 1 February 1917. Sgt Crowthers was later listed as having been taken prisoner of war (POW) and died of wounds at a German field hospital at Sachsenburg, Germany, ten days later, aged 27. According to his Red Cross Wounded and Missing Enquiry Bureau file, he was buried at the Verbandsplatz at Sachsenburg, but the location of his grave was never determined and consequently he has no known grave. Sgt Crowther is the older brother of 489 Trooper Samuel Crowther, 2nd Light Horse Regiment, who was killed in action at Quinns Post on 14 May 1915 (See P07782.002).

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