Veterans / Tasmania / Thomas Edward Rowley

Service No. 1487 · Private

Thomas Edward Rowley

12th Battalion, AIF

Born
12 Apr 1893
Died
03 Aug 1962
Enlisted
12 Sept 1914

Thomas enlisted in Hobart in September 1914 and embarked for Egypt with the original 12th Battalion. He landed at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915, was wounded at Lone Pine, and returned to Tasmania in 1918. He worked as a wharf labourer until his death in 1962 and was buried in an unmarked grave at Cornelian Bay.

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