ANGUS, Roy Harlow
| Service Numbers: | 6283, 6283A |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 28th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Glenroy, Victoria, Australia, 14 October 1885 |
| Home Town: | Koorda, Koorda, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Broodseinde, Belgium, 4 October 1917, aged 31 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Greenbushes War Memorial, W.A., Koorda War Memorial, Menin Gate Memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing of the Ypres Salient) |
World War 1 Service
| 23 Dec 1916: | Embarked Private, 6283, 27th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Berrima, Fremantle | |
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| 4 Oct 1917: | Involvement Private, 6283A, 28th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 6283A awm_unit: 28 Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1917-10-04 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Richard Hull
My great uncle. The second son of Henry Blackett Angus and Charlotte Jane Petts (known as Jeannie Hutton on his death). His father worked on the animal quarantine station at Shark Island, Sydney Harbour, and died in 1889, leaving his mother, brother and sister to return to England where his parents were born. In 1891 the English census shows Roy in Canterbury, Kent, with his brother John, as boarders (the birth town of his mother Charlotte). At some stage, the brothers returned to Australia to take up farming in Western Australia. At the onset of WW1, reputedly they 'tossed a coin' to see which one of them would enlist; Roy went off and left John Garthorn Angus to carry on the farming. Neither of them left biological children, but their sister Mary Garthorn Angus trained as a nurse at St.Barts Hospital London in 1910, and in 1915 worked in the nearby 1st London General Military Hospital, Camberwell, where Vera Brittain worked. Mary was my maternal grandmother. Richard Hull
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