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)