MAXWELL, Edward Crofton

  1. Service Details
  2. Personal Details
  3. Unit and Rank Details
  4. Commemoration
  5. Notes
  6. Sources

Service Details

Branch of Service
Army
Conflict
World War I (1914-1918)
Date of Enlistment
31/07/1915
Date of Discharge
16/02/1916
Place of Enlistment
Liverpool NSW

Personal Details

Gender
Male
Date of Birth
10/06/1890
Place of Birth
Tuggeranong (Tuggranong) ACT
Address (at enlistment)
Queanbeyan NSW (previously Tuggeranong ACT)
School(s) Attended
Tharwa School
Occupation
Drover
Next of Kin
Thomas P. Maxwell (father), Monaro Street, Queanbeyan NSW

Unit and Rank Details

Service Number
1326
Final Rank
Private
Final Unit
7 Light Horse Regiment AIF

Commemoration

Queanbeyan RSL Wall of Remembrance, Crawford St, Queanbeyan NSW (as E.C. Maxwell and M.E. Crofton)

Notes

Like his brothers Tom and Mick, Ted Maxwell was born in Tuggeranong and worked as a drover. After enlisting in July 1915 he embarked in October 1915 as a Trooper with reinforcements for the 7th Light Horse Regiment. He returned to Australia in January 1916 suffering "morbus cardio" and was discharged medically unfit in February 1916. At his welcome home he was said to be suffering rheumatic fever. He married Margaret Morton in 1916 in Sydney and after the war leased land at Reedy Creek and Gungahlin, however he died on 1 March 1927 at Randwick Military Hospital from heart disease and is buried in the Riverside Cemetery, Queanbeyan.

Description - height 5 feet 10 inches, weight 158 pounds, chest 34-38 inches, dark complexion, brown eyes, black hair, Catholic.

Sources

Rex Cross, 'Bygone Queanbeyan', 1980
Matthew Higgins, 'A Century of Learning: Tharwa Primary School 1899-1999', Canberra 1999
Queanbeyan Age - 13 November 1914, 27 July 1915, 7 March 1916
Photograph of Maxwell and another soldier, Canberra & District Historical Society (photograph 1500)
Maxwell collection, Canberra & District Historical Society
NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920)

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