Alfred Crowther was an Australian-born soccer player who was killed in the Anzac landing at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915. He played for the YMCA soccer club in 1911 under captain Tom Pollock. From a working class Broken Hill family who were living in the Adelaide suburb of Wayville, Alfred Crowther was an iron moulder and his father was a furnace minder. He attended Sturt Street school which had a reputation for encouraging soccer.
He enlisted on 11th September 1914 at the age of 26 and trained at Morphettville camp with the 10th Battalion. The Battalion sailed to Egypt on the Ascanius on 20 October – while Imperial strategists planned how the Anzacs would be used. In the utter confusion of the landing on 25 April, as units became intermingled and chains of command broke down, Crowther and a small group of men became isolated. A soldier who was nearby later told how Crowther simply laughed after a bullet passed through his cap, only to be hit and killed moments later.