Tasmanian War Casualties

WW1

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Crole, Frederick Charles

Born 1^st January 1873 Healesville Victoria the ninth and youngest child of William Ebenzer and Ellen Crole (nee Brown) and married to Martha Helena Phillips.

In 1908 Frederick arrived in Trowutta Tasmania where he took up 100 acres of heavily timbered bush. Lena stayed behind with the family at Edith Creek until he could clear enough land to build a house. After a few months he realized he could not do it as soon as he hoped so he arranged for Lena and rest of the family to come to Trowutta.

They travelled to Trowutta on a sledge pulled by a team of six bullocks piled high with furniture and Lena and the children sitting on top. Their new home was a one room hut with a hole for a window but no window just a nailed up bag that was dropped down of a night. They were to live there for the next 12 months.

At the outbreak of WW1 their oldest son Arthur enlisted on the 12^th May 1915. Early in 1916 Frederick also enlisted. He embarked Hobart 1^st July 1916 on board “HMAT Berrima” with the 40^th Infantry Battalion leaving behind his wife and five children under the age of 16 to manage the farm.

On the 12^th November 1916 he was appointed Lance Corporal at Larkhill and then on the 12^th January 1917 he was promoted in the field to Sergeant.

He was killed in action 8^th May 1917 in Ploegsteert Wood and is commemorated in the Strand Military Cemetery, Belgium.

After the death of his father Arthur was discharged from the Army and returned to Tasmania 22^nd July 1917 in order to assist his mother.

Photos and information courtesy Christine Devers

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