CROSBIE, Matthew Robert VETERAN

Name – CROSBIE, Matthew Robert VETERAN
Born – 00/10/1879
Died – 9/08/1953
Location – No 23 Presbyterian Section
Mother – Ann Walker
Father – Daniel Crosbie

Notes – Matthew was born to Daniel and Ann Crosbie in 1879. He was a part of a large family which included his siblings, James, Augustus, Elizabeth, John, Agnes, Alexander, Henry and Walter.

He lived at Beaufort, Victoria when he enlisted in the Boer War, Service Number 181 member of the 2nd Contingent of the Victorian Mounted Rifle troops.

In 1908 he married Agnes Maxwell Dowey. Matthew and Agnes had seven children, Janet Mary, Agnes Eileen, Enid Isobel, Leslie Verdun, Robert Daniel Keith, Allan Matthew and Jessie Elizabeth Annie. His brother John Charles Crosbie was killed in 1918 while fighting in France during WWI.

The Crosbie family lived on their property Iona at Goranba near Tara. Matthew is recorded on the roll: 1903 at Tooyal, N.S.W. Farmer; 1909 with Agnes at Swanpool Victoria where he was a blacksmith; 1919 at Echuca Victoria with Agnes and worked as a farmer. From 1928 to 1953 Matthew is registered with Agnes at Iona, Goranba near Tara with Allan, Matthew and Robert working as graziers.

Matthew is buried next to his wife and the inscription of his headstone reads – In loving Memory of  my dear husband and our father and grandfather Matthew Robert Crosbie. Died 9th August, 1953. Aged 77 years. Thy will be done.

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War Service File  – No Boer War record available.

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