TOWNER, FREDERICK ARTHUR ALBERT, Private, Signaller, No. 148, 7th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, s. of Horace Frederick Towner, of 22, Alfred Street, St. Leonards-on-Sea, Cabinet Maker, by his wife, Isabel, dau. of William McLeod; b. St. Leonards, 6 July, 1890; educ. Christ Church School there; went to sea in 1906 and was twice wrecked, first on the John Shelley, in Nov. 1907, and secondly with the sailing ship Enterprise, in the North Sea, Oct. 1908, being on this last occasion the sole survivor; in 1912 went to Australia and took up farming, but after the outbreak of war enlisted in the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force, 4 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 3 June, 1915; unm.
Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 1