| Place | Europe: France |
|---|---|
| Accession Number | 1DRL/0227 |
| Collection type | Private Record |
| Record type | Collection |
| Measurement | 1 wallet: 1 cm |
| Object type | Papers |
| Maker |
Crowle, Herbert Walter |
| Place made | France: Picardie, Somme, Albert Bapaume Area, Pozieres Area, United Kingdom: England, Wiltshire, Salisbury Plain |
| Date made | 1916-1917 |
| Access | Open |
| Related File This file can be copied or viewed via the Memorial’s Reading Room. | AWM93 12/11/1012 |
| Conflict |
First World War, 1914-1918 |
| Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
|
| Copying Provisions | Copyright expired. Copying permitted subject to physical condition. Permission for reproduction not required. |
Crowle, Herbert Walter (Lieutenant, b.? - d.1916)
Description
Collection relating to service of Lieutenant Herbert Walter Crowle, 10 Battalion, Gallipoli and France, 1916-1917. Collection includes a letter dictated by Crowle to his wife as he was dying from wounds received in the Pozieres - Mouquet Farm Sector.
History / Summary
2 Lt Herbert Walter Crowle enlisted in the AIF 12 December 1914. He served with the 10th Battalion in Gallipoli and then moved to the Western Front. He was wounded during the fighting around Mouquet Farm in August and evacuated to the 3rd Casualty Clearing Station. He was so badly hurt that he could not write, so dictated a letter to his wife, Beatrice, to a chaplain working at the clearing station. This letter of farewell, with another letter from the chaplain, are held at the AWM.
Biographical note: builder of North Adelaide; born North Carlton, VIC, 29 February 1884; educated at Faraday Street State School, Carlton; went to South Australia, November 1910; joined AIF 12 December 1914; 1 February 1915 appointed Lance Corporal; 24 January 1916 - Corporal; 1 March 1916 - Sergeant; 5 August 1916 Second Lieutenant; wounded ANZAC 19 May 1915; wounded (mortally) Pozieres 21 August 1916.