Joe Crowl

Joe Crowl
Personal information
Full name	Joseph Terrell Crowl
Date of birth	(1883-12-13)13 December 1883
Place of birth	Melbourne, Victoria
Date of death	27 June 1915(1915-06-27) (aged 31)
Place of death	Gallipoli, Ottoman Turkey
Original team(s)	Mercantile and Chilwell
Playing career^1
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1906	Geelong	4 (0)
^1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1914.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

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

Footnotes

1. Killed in Action, The Argus, (Saturday, 31 July 1915), p.11.
2. Deaths: Crowl, The Age, (Tuesday 15 January 1924), p.1.
3. 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).

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

• Joe Crowl's playing statistics from AFL Tables
• Terry Crowl, australianfootball.com.