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Lieutenant Colonel: NX257323 Kenneth George HARROWER. E.D. – J.P.

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Australian Defence Medal and Efficiency Decoration to LT COL K.G.HARROWER
 

30th Battalion A.I.F. NSW Scottish Regiment. Royal Australian Army Ordinance Corps.

Lieutenant Colonel: NX257323 Kenneth George HARROWER. E.D. - J.P.

Born: 21 May 1930. Blacktown, New South Wales, Australia.

Married: 19th September 1953. Willoughby, New South Wales, Australia.

Wife 1: Dorothy Emma Harrower .nee: Knight.

Wife 2: Edna Estelle Harrower. nee: Hardy.

Married: 1977. Dee Why, New South Wales, Australia.

Died: 7th August 1998. Nerringah Hospital, Wahroonga, New South Wales, Australia. Death Cert:27691/1998.

Father: > Flight Lieutenant: George Harrower. JP (1901-1996)

Mother: Florence Ethel Harrower. nee: Downton. (1903-1989)

INFORMATION
Ken was the only child of George and Florence Harrower, born at Blacktown Hospital on the 22nd of August 1930. Ken was actively involved with the Presbyterian Social Groups and was a religious studies leader. Ken went to Blacktown High School and was a Junior Flight Commander with the Australian Air League. Ken joined the Pubic Service in 1946, he enlisted with the 30th Battalion, N.S.W. Scottish Regiment in 1949.

Australian Air League. Blacktown N.S.W.
Junior Flight Commander. Australian Air League. (Blacktown)
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Lieutenant Colonel:NX 257323 Kenneth George HARROWER. E.D. J.P. Commanding Officer Headquarters Communication Zone Royal Australian Army Ordanance Corps. Served and trained with the 1st Papuan Infantry Battalion 1968 Papua New Guinea.

The Papuan Infantry Regiment reformed in 1951 and consisted of two battalions, one stationed in Papua and the other in New Guinea. The PIR was formally controlled from Australia until Papua New Guinea’s independence in 1975. It was renamed the Royal Pacific Islands Regiment in 1985.

 
 

ANZAC DAY MARCH
 
The New South Wales Service Meritorious Service Medallion (1946-1986)
The New South Wales Service Medallion is presented by the Premier and awarded to employees (both waged and salaried staff) who have completed forty or more years of meritorious service for the New South Wales Government.

CLOSING DOWN. QUEBEC 3 OUT. 28th November 1986
Dad joined the Public Service in 1946 and retired as Assistant Director (Administration) New South Wales State Emergency Services on the 28th November 1986 after over 40 years service in the New South Wales Public Service. Prior to his appointment with the State Emergency Services he was the Inspector of Recruitment with the New South Wales Public Service Board. (Goodsell Building Sydney)

Kenneth George Harrower ED JP,

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Lance Corporal: 5697 Peter HARROWER.

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30th BATTALION AIF

Lance Corporal: 5697 Peter HARROWER.

Born: 12 October 1894. Rolland's, Plains Station, New South Wales, Australia

Married: 1921. Burwood, New South Wales, Australia. Marriage Cert:1935/1921.

Wife: Ellen Rose Ada Harrower. nee: Alexander. (1898-1976)

Died: 27 July 1953. Bronte, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Death Cert:22948/1953.

Father: James Hanover Harrower. (1864-1921)

Mother: Janet Burnet Harrower. nee: Bulter. (1865-1931)

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Family Information

L\CPL: 6815 Albert Alexander HARROWER 35th Bn his brother L/CPL: 5697 Peter HARROWER 30th Bn. Anzac Day 1930's

Peter's occupation was a Railway Employee after the Great War.

Probate Notification 5th August 1953

Peter is buried at the Botany Cemetery

Eastern Suburbs Memorial Park

Matraville, Randwick City, New South Wales, Australia
PLOT Rose Gardens, Garden K3, Position 264

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Captain: Claude Esdaile PRIOR.

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9th INFANTRY BRIGADE - 36th BATTALION A.I.F.

Captain: Claude Esdaile PRIOR.

Born: 18th September 1898. Burrowa, New South Wales, Australia.

Died: 16th June 1954. Manly New South Wales, Australia.

Father: William Henry Prior.

Mother: nee:.

INFORMATION
Claude Esdaile Prior enlisted with the 9th Infantry Brigade, Headquarters from the Military College at Duntroon ACT.

Family Information
Brigadier C. E. Prior died suddenly at his home in Bower Street, Manly, yesterday morning. Brigadier Prior, who had lived in Manly for 33 years, was appointed general secretary of the Manly Chamber of Commerce last July. He served with the A.I.F. in both World Wars, and in 1949 was appointed senior Australian Military Observer with the United Nations Commission for Indonesia. Brigadier Prior is survived by Mrs. Prior, and a married daughter. A military funeral will leave for Northern Suburbs Cemetery after a service at St Matthew's Church of England, The Corso, Manly, at 10 a.m. to-day.

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Private: 2406 Francis William WAUGH.

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 36th BATTALION A.I.F.

 Private: 2406 Francis William WAUGH.

Born: 20th July 1889. 2 Springfield Place, Scarborough England.

Died: 10th June 1917. Killed in Action Messines, Belgium.

Father: Francis Waugh.

Mother: Ann Elizabeth Waugh. nee: Owen.

INFORMATION
Francis William Waugh enlisted with the 36th Battalion AIF on the 17th May 1916 and was posted No:7 Platoon of ‘B’ Company of the newly formed 36TH Infantry Battalion, a unit which had been formed as a result of a recruiting drive among-st the rifle clubs of New South Wales by the Province’s Minister for Public Information, Ambrose CARMICHAEL giving rise to the original Battalion becoming known as ‘Carmichael’s Thousand, which had been training at Broadmeadow Camp, in Newcastle, New South Wales.

MESSINES
2: Throughout the ensuing two days the Australians had expected the Germans to counter attack with their customary vigour at any moment. In the event the enemy had never launched an attack, instead they had elected to subject the Australians to a constant bombardment by High Explosive, and gas shells. Despite this the Third Division had carried out numerous operations. One of these had taken place during the night of Sunday the 10TH June when the 36TH New South Wales Battalion of Ninth Brigade had launched an attack on a strong point known as ‘La Potterie Farm’. On the way over the formation had come under intense artillery fire, which had badly injured Lieutenant Richard Henry DOYLE, the Commanding Officer of ‘B’ Company. Seeing their officer lying mortally wounded in a shell hole three soldiers, who had been acting as Doyle’s messengers had gone to his assistance only to be hit by another shell, which had killed Doyle and the three privates outright. One of the men had been the nineteen years old Private: 2407 Cecil WRIGHT the others had been the thirty one years old Private: 2387 Frank Horace Crow SHARMAN and his twenty seven years old ‘mate’; 2406 Private Francis William WAUGH.

Francis was Killed in Action at Messines Belgium on the 10th June 1917 and remembered with honour and is commemorated in perpetuity by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission at the .

The War Graves Photographic Project (in association with the CWGC)

 

1: 36th Battalion War diary

2: 36th Battalion Plugstreet Archaelogy

Family Information
2:Born in Scarborough on the twentieth of July 1889, at No: 2 Springfield Place, Frank had been the only son of Ann Elizabeth, and Fisherman, Francis Waugh [Francis Waugh and Ann Elizabeth Owen had married at Scarborough’s St Mary’s Parish Church on the 6TH of April 1885]. Frank had spent his formative years in the labyrinth of Scarborough’s East Ward, or ‘Bottom End’ of town, and had been a pupil of the district’s Friarage Board School between the ages of four and thirteen. Frank had left Friarage during 1902 to begin work as a labourer for George Cockerill, whose farm had been situated at ‘Cumboots’, near to the village of Scalby. Frank had remained with Cockerill until 1911, when, like many other local young men in search of a better way of life he had migrated to Australia. In ‘the New World’, Waugh had settled in the Eastern Australian Province of New South Wales, where he had found work as a farmhand in the township of Adamstown.

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Private: 2360 George MORRIS

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34th BATTALION AIF

Private: 2360 George MORRIS

Born: 1895. Staggy Creek via Moree, New South Wales, Australia. Birth Cert:

Died:

Father:

Mother: Annie Morris.

INFORMATION

George Morris enlisted with the AIF at Narrabri, New South Wales on the 13th June 1916 and was allocated to the 4th Reinforcements, 34th Battalion AIF

 

returned to Australia on the 21st December 1917. No: 4 Australian Garrison Hospital at Randwick, New South Wales.

MORRIS G. Inverell War Memorial

Inverell War Memorial

Family Information

George was a single 22 year old Farm Labourer from Gum Flat via Inverell, New South Wales upon his enlistment with the AIF

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Private: 1266 Daniel John Alfred WYATT.

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36th BATTALION A.I.F.

 Private: 1266 Daniel John Alfred WYATT.

Born: Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia. 

Married: 1908. Woollahra, New South Wales, Australia.

Wife: Eva May Elsie Wyatt. nee:.

Died: 

Father:

Mother: nee:.

INFORMATION
Daniel John Alfred Wyatt served during the Boer War with the Kitchener Scouts, 3rd Australian Bushman in South Africa. 

Wyatt: Daniel John Alfred. 255/37728 Trooper  2nd Kitchener's Fighting Scouts.  Cape Town 16/8/01, discharged 27/12/01 Pretoria.

Kitchener's Fighting Scouts, a colonial unit of the Boer War of 1899-1902.

Thomas Theobold, a member of the Second Kitchener’s Fighting Scouts, describes just this. In a letter to his wife, dated October 20th 1901, he tells of the 2ndKitchener’s Fighting Scouts troubles during their travels to Pretoria. They were surrounded and ambushed by the Boers, just as they had camped after travelling a far distance. Thomas says that four of their men were killed, fifteen wounded and twenty four taken as prisoners. He speaks of the harsh conditions, dealing with the changing climate and going days without food. Many soldiers died from exhaustion and starvation on the long treks across the countryside.

Records from the 2nd Boer War.

Family Information
Brother in Law; Private: 66 George FORREST. 34th Battalion AIF. Killed in Action

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Private: 2655 Francis John STOVE

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34th BATTALION AIF

Private: 2655 Francis John STOVE

Born: 

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INFORMATION
 enlisted with the 5th Reinforcements 34th Battalion AIF on the 2nd September 1916 at the Rutherford Army Camp.

27th March 1917.

Private: 2696 William John FEENEY  Private: 2535 Henry CLEVELAND -  Private: 2626 Percy Frederick NELSON - Private: 2655 Francis John STOVE. 

Private: 3137 Victor Scott KELL - Private: 2651 William Lester SEYMOUR - Private: 2631 John PULHAM  - Private: 2571 Harold GODWIN

Members of the 5th Reinforcements 34th Battalion, Larkhill 1916.

Private: 2626 Percy Frederick NELSON

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34th BATTALION A.I.F.

Private: 2626 Percy Frederick NELSON

Born: 6th February 1892. Coonabarabran, New South Wales, Australia. Birth Cert:

Married: 

Wife: nee:.

Died: 1962. Marrickville, New South wales, Australia. Death Cert:

Father: Alexander Nelson. (1852-1945)

Mother: Susanna Mary Jane Nelson. nee: Neate. (1856-1938)

INFORMATION

27th March 1917.

Private: 2696 William John FEENEY - Private: 2535 Henry CLEVELAND - Private: 2626 Percy Frederick NELSON - Private: 2655 Francis John STOVE
Private: 3137 Victor Scott KELL - Private: 2551 William Lester SEYMOUR - Private: 2571 Harold "Zacky" GODWIN
Members of the 5th Reinforcements 34th Battalion, Larkhill 1916.
Family Information
Percy served during World War 2, service number N427352, enlisting at Coonamble, N.S.W. on the 25th March 1942 with the 25th Battalion Volunteer Defence Dorps and was discharged on the 19th July 1943. Percy is buried at Matraville, Randwick City, New South Wales, Australia. 

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