Ernest Stanley ROWLEY

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ROWLEY, Ernest Stanley

Service Number:	1763
Enlisted:	14 February 1916, Ballarat, Victoria
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	59th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Ballarat, Victoria, Australia , 13 August 1899
Home Town:	Ballarat, Central Highlands, Victoria
Schooling:	Mt Pleasant State School, Victoria, Australia
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Killed in Action, France, 1 October 1918, aged 19 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Knox Church Great War Roll of Honour

World War 1 Service

14 Feb 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1763, Ballarat, Victoria
4 Apr 1916:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 1763, 57th Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '20' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: ''
4 Apr 1916:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 1763, 57th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Euripides, Melbourne
1 Sep 1916:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 59th Infantry Battalion
1 Oct 1918:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 1763, 59th Infantry Battalion, Breaching the Hindenburg Line - Cambrai / St Quentin Canal

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Biography contributed by Pamela Smith

Ernest Stanley Rowley followed his older brother 4303 Pte Cornelius William Rowley (/explore/people/338112) into active service abroad during WW1.

He was aged only 16 years at the time.

He was originally a member of the 57th Infantry Battalion, but had been transferred to the 59th Infantry Battalion before being killed in action near Bellicourt on the 1st October 1918.

His brother had also been killed in action the previous year, on 11th April 1917 at Bullecourt, France.

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