Lindsay Glowrey was the son of James Glowrey, proprietor of the well-known Perth landmark the Palace Hotel. As a teenager he received elocution lessons from Lionel Logue, later famed for treating King George VI for his stammer. Following his education at Christian Brothers' College in Perth, he became an articled law clerk. He left his position with the law firm of Smith & Lavan to enlist in the 16th Battalion in October 1915. He applied for, and received, a commission as a second lieutenant a month later. Lindsay was taken ill on arrival in Britain but he continued to want to serve his country on the battlefield. By January 1917 he was seen fit to return to his unit in the line, and finally made it back to France in March of that year. Just six weeks later the 16th Battalion was attacking an outpost to the Hindenburg Line, an extremely strong defensive work the German army had retired to following the battle of the Somme. Seventeen officers and 700 men of the 16th Battalion went into the attack. Just three officers and 87 men returned. Second Lieutenant Lindsay Glowrey was one of the men killed in action on that day. He was 25 years old.Glowrey was commemorated in Australia with a number of obituaries in the Western Australian newspapers and a large memorial service in a Catholic church in Perth.

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