12 Facts About Claude Crowl

Claude Terrell Crowl was an Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda in the Victorian Football League.

Claude Crowl was a member of the First AIF, and was killed in action during the landing at Anzac Cove, Gallipoli, in Ottoman Turkey on 25 April 1915.

The son of Richard Terrell Crowl and Jane Crowl, nee Brown, he was born at Stratford, Victoria on 26 December 1892.

Claude Crowl was the cousin of the Geelong footballer Captain Joseph Terrell Crowl who was killed in action at Gallipoli on 27 June 1915.

Claude Crowl attended Caulfield Grammar School from 1903 to 1905; and, whilst there, he was an outstanding performer in under-age athletics.

Claude Crowl was awarded the "Under 14 Cup" having beaten another student, equal on points, in a "run off".

Claude Crowl was one of nine men who took the field for St Kilda for the first time on that day.

The fact that Claude Crowl played the last of his three senior games in round seventeen, is simply explained: the strike was resolved before round eighteen, and the only player of the nine to keep his place was Cazaly.

Claude Crowl played well in his first match in the back pocket of a team that was thrashed by 114 points, 18.21 to 2.3.

Claude Crowl played the next match, against Essendon, in the back pocket; St Kilda lost by 125 points, 24.19 to 5.8.

Claude Crowl enlisted in the First AIF on 25 August 1914, giving his occupation as a farmer at Poowong, Victoria.

Fen McDonald who had played his first game for Carlton on the same day that Claude Crowl made his debut for St Kilda, died in action at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915.