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VC1324    Albert Chowne

Name   Albert Chowne    No.      POSTHUMOUS

VC Issue No.   1324   Awards   VC    MM

Regiment   Australian Military Forces, 2/2nd (New South Wales) Battalion

Later   

Now   

Rank VC Won   Lieutenant

Rank End Of Career   Lieutenant

Place Of Birth   Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Place Of Death   Between Dagua and Wewak, New Guinea (now Papua New Guinea)

Buried/Location Ashes    Lae War Cemetery, near Lae Zoo, on the east coast of Huon Gulf, Papua New Guinea

Cremated   

Date Buried/Cremated   

Headstone   Headstone (CWGC)     Plot/Grave no.   Plot QQ, Row A, Grave 8

Gazetted    6 September 1945

VC Presented   8 January 1947, Governor-General of Australia, Duke of Gloucester, Sydney, Australia

Memorials

P  Headstone, Lae War Cemetery, near Lae Zoo, on the east coast of Huon Gulf, Papua New Guinea

Chowne Memorial Hall, Willoughby, Sydney, NSW, Australia

P  VC Heroes Walk, Anzac Memorial Park, The Strand, Townsville, Q, Australia

P  Named on Victoria Cross Memorial, Queen Victoria Building, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Chowne Street, Canberra, ACT, Australia

Chowne Road, Loxwood, SA, Australia

By The Way…

VC Held By

Australian War Memorial, Hall of Valour, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia

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BORN    19 July 1920

DIED   25 March 1945   AGE    24

VC Won  25 March 1945  AGE   24

Place VC Won   near Dagua, New Guinea (now Papua New Guinea)

War/Campaign   Second World War

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