Cowdroy, Henry Atfield, 1876 - 1955

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Name Henry Atfield Cowdroy, 1876 - 1955BiographyDate of Birth: 1876, Moruya (N.S.W.) Date of Death: 5 August 1955, Queensland Buried: 7 August 1955, Tara, Queensland Henry Atfield Cowdroy was the son of Charles Collos Cowdroy and Mary Susan Hatfield. He married Gertrude Margaret Gannon in August 1911. Henry was 37 years old, working as a miner and living at Woodford, Queensland, at the time of his enlistment in January 1916. Henry was awarded a Military Medal: On the night of 26th/27th June 1917 at La Petite Douve Farm, Messines, Pte Henry Atfield Cowdroy was a member of a working party which was constructing trench tramways, when a heavy enemy barrage dropped on the party. Pte Cowdroy showed great coolness, courage and determination, in that he, although badly wounded in the foot, went to the assistance of a wounded Officer, and under heavy shell fire, carried him to a place of safety, although he himself suffered considerably from loss of blood. He then pushed on and obtained assistance, and eventually arrived at the Dressing Station in a most exhausted condition, with the wounded officer. [Commonwealth Gazette No. 9 dated 24 January 1918] After the war the family lived in Kandanga, Gympie, Queensland for a time.Birth date02 October 1895Death date05 August 1955

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Cowdroy, Henry Atfield, 1876 - 1955