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Errol Claude COWLEY

Regimental number135
Place of birthIngham Queensland
SchoolIngham and Nambour State Schools and Gatton College, Queensland
ReligionProtestant
OccupationExperimentalist
AddressCollege, Gatton, Queensland
Marital statusSingle
Age at embarkation19
Next of kinFather, Louis Jesse Cowley, 'Lorne,' Windsor Road, Baulkham Hills, New South Wales
Previous military serviceCitizens Forces and Cadets
Enlistment date22 August 1914
Date of enlistment from Nominal Roll22 September 1914
Rank on enlistmentPrivate
Unit name2nd Light Horse Regiment, A Squadron
AWM Embarkation Roll number10/7/1
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Brisbane, Queensland, on board Transport A15 Star of England on 24 September 1914
Rank from Nominal RollSergeant
Unit from Nominal Roll2nd Light Horse Regiment
FateKilled in Action 9 January 1917
Place of death or woundingRapa, Palestine
Age at death20.9
Age at death from cemetery records21
Place of burialKantara War Memorial Cemetery (Row F, Grave No. 197), Egypt
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
  Australian War Memorial
3
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Parents: Lewis and Isabel COWLEY, Baulkham Hills, New South Wales. Native of Ingham, Queensland

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