Joe Crowl Explained

Joe Crowl
Fullname:	Joseph Terrell Crowl
Birth Date:	13 December 1883
Birth Place:	Melbourne, Victoria
Death Place:	Gallipoli, Ottoman Turkey
Originalteam:	Mercantile and Chilwell
Statsend:	1914
Years1:	1906
Games Goals1:	4 (0)

Joseph Terrell Crowl (13 December 1883 – 27 June 1915) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Geelong in the Victorian Football League. He was killed soon after the landings in Gallipoli in World War I.^[1]

Family

The son of Joseph Terrell Crowl (1856–1924),^[2] and Matilda Orr Crowl (1924), née Forbes, Joseph Terrell Crowl was born in Melbourne on 13 December 1883.^{[3] [4]}

He was the cousin of the St Kilda footballer Private Claude Terrell Crowl (337) who was killed in action whilst landing at Gallipoli, Ottoman Turkey on 25 April 1915.

See also

• List of Victorian Football League players who died on active service

References

• Holmesby, Russell & Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers. 7th ed. Melbourne: Bas Publishing.
• Main, J. & Allen, D., "Crowl, Joseph", pp. 49–51 in Main, J. & Allen, D., Fallen – The Ultimate Heroes: Footballers Who Never Returned From War, Crown Content, (Melbourne), 2002.
• World War One Service Record: Captain Joseph Terrell Crowl, National Archives of Australia.
• World War One Nominal Roll: Captain Joseph Terrell Crowl, Australian War Memorial.
• World War One Embarkation Roll: Captain Joseph Terrell Crowl, Australian War Memorial.
• Roll of Honour: Captain Joseph Terrell Crowl, Australian War Memorial.
• Crowl, Joseph Terrell, Port Melbourne First World War Centenary.

External links

• • Terry Crowl, australianfootball.com.

Notes and References

1. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/1543586 Killed in Action, The Argus, (Saturday, 31 July 1915), p.11.
2. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/204093208 Deaths: Crowl, The Age, (Tuesday 15 January 1924), p.1.
3. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/202609355 Births: Crowl, The Age, (Friday, 28 December 1883).
4. At the time of his enlistment in the First AIF (24 November 1914) Crowl correctly declared his date of birth to be "13 December" (with no year) and, also, correctly declared his age to be "30 years and 11 months". However, the enlistment officer's inaccurate calculation of "1884" was pencilled into the application form; and this explains why some of his military records show his year of birth as 1884 (i.e., due to clerical error, rather than any deception by Crowl).