Clive Stanley Crowley DCM was an Australian grazier and soldier who was killed during the First World War.
12 Facts About Clive Crowley
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Clive Crowley was one of eight children born to Alice and John Clive Crowley of Cobbadah station near Barraba, New South Wales.
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Clive Crowley's siblings were: Mabel ; Arley ; Royce ; Audrey ; Mildred ; Frank ; and Keith.
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The Clive Crowley family were wealthy Methodist graziers who had pioneered European settlement in north-western New South Wales.
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Clive Crowley was transported for life for stealing a sheep and his son, Clive's grandfather, settled at Cobbadah.
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At Newington, Clive Crowley studied on the Modern side and left school at the end of 1906 with a favourable record.
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On enlistment, Clive Crowley was a lance corporal in B Company of the 33rd Battalion.
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Clive Crowley embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board HMAT A74 Marathon on 4 May 1916.
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Clive Crowley organized the consolidation and captured an advanced post and a field gun with great dash, afterwards holding the captured post under heavy shell fire and keeping his men well in hand by his cheerfulness and optimism.
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Clive Crowley was badly gassed at the Second Battle of Villers-Bretonneux and died of wounds.
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Clive Crowley is buried at Longueau British Cemetery in France.
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Clive Crowley is commemorated by a brass plaque in the Newington College Chapel, on the school's First World War honour board and on the Barraba and District War Memorial.