Albert Ross Rowney

ALBERT ROSS ROWNEY
Albert Ross Rowney Reg. No. 2778. Is the son of Edward Rowney and Anne nee Casson, of Main Road Campbelltown, South Australia. He was born on the 25th of November 1893 at Campbelltown, one of ten children. His employment was listed as Carpenter.
He enlisted in the 10th Australian Infantry Brigade, on the 1st September 1915, and sailed from Adelaide on the 27th of October 1915 on HMAT Benalla A24. Before being sent to Belgium, he had been serving in Egypt and France. On 6th of May 1916 he was wounded in action in France, with wounds to both legs. On the 28th of June he rejoined his unit. Whilst in a trench with two others, in Belgium, on Westhoek Ridge, it was hit by a shell. He suffered another leg wound and a broken arm. He asked a stretcher bearer to help the other two in the trench and set off to walk 2 miles to the nearest casualty station. That was on 8th of October 1917. He was not seen again and his body was never found. It was stated that the road he was on, was often heavily shelled. He is commemorated on the Menin Gate at Ypres.

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