BOARDMAN, Rockley Joseph
Service Numbers: | 232, R1559, 4559 |
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Enlisted: | 24 October 1914 |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 43rd Infantry Battalion |
Born: | Mount Gambier, South Australia, 7 September 1895 |
Home Town: | Canterbury, Boroondara, Victoria |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Labourer |
Died: | Killed in Action, France, 1 September 1918, aged 22 years |
Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
Memorials: | Adelaide National War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France) |
World War 1 Service
24 Oct 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 232 | |
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7 Feb 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, R1559, 43rd Infantry Battalion | |
25 Mar 1916: | Involvement Private, 4559, 27th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '15' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Shropshire embarkation_ship_number: A9 public_note: '' | |
25 Mar 1916: | Embarked Private, 4559, 27th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Shropshire, Adelaide | |
16 Dec 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, R1559, 43rd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '18' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Berrima embarkation_ship_number: A35 public_note: '' | |
1 Sep 1918: | Involvement AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 4559, 43rd Infantry Battalion, Mont St Quentin / Peronne, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 4559 awm_unit: 43rd Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Lance Corporal awm_died_date: 1918-09-01 | |
15 Jan 2015: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4559 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Steve Larkins
Wife, Mrs Gertie Boardman, Malingby Road, Canterbury, Victoria. She remarried after Rockley's death and as Mrs Neilsen was the recipient of Rockley's medals and Commemorative Plaque.
Biography contributed by Elizabeth Allen
Rockley Joseph BOARDMAN was born in Mount Gambier, South Australia on 7th September, 1895
His parents were Alfred BOARDMAN & Ellen FARRELL
On his birth record in SA and his marriage to Gert. Maria GADD in 1915 in Victoria his name is listed as Rockless Joseph