Joe Crowl

Joe Crowl
Joe Crowl
Personal information
Full name	Joseph Terrell Crowl
Date of birth	13 December 1883
Place of birth	Melbourne, Victoria
Date of death	27 June 1915 (aged 31)
Place of death	Gallipoli, Ottoman Turkey
Original team(s)	Mercantile and Chilwell
Playing career1
Years	Club
1906	Geelong
	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.

Footnotes

^ Killed in Action, The Argus, (Saturday, 31 July 1915), p.11.
^ Deaths: Crowl, The Age, (Tuesday 15 January 1924), p.1.
^ Births: Crowl, The Age, (Friday, 28 December 1883).
^ 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).