WESTCOTT, Robert Holcombe
| Service Number: | 2913 |
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| Enlisted: | 23 August 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 1st Machine Gun Battalion |
| Born: | Mitchell, Maranoa, Queensland, Australia, 1893 |
| Home Town: | Mitchell, Maranoa, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Grazier |
| Died: | Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, 1 October 1982, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Toowoomba Garden of Remembrance | Cemetery & Crematorium |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 23 Aug 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2913, 41st Infantry Battalion | |
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| 23 Dec 1916: | Involvement Private, 2913, 41st Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '18' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Demosthenes embarkation_ship_number: A64 public_note: '' | |
| 23 Dec 1916: | Embarked Private, 2913, 41st Infantry Battalion, HMAT Demosthenes, Sydney | |
| 16 Jun 1917: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, Australian Machine Gun Corps | |
| 14 May 1918: | Promoted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 1st Machine Gun Battalion | |
| 18 Sep 1918: | Wounded AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 2913, 1st Machine Gun Battalion , France: GSW left leg | |
| 18 Jan 1919: | Embarked AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 2913, 1st Machine Gun Battalion , per Margha | |
| 11 Apr 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 2913, 1st Machine Gun Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Roy was the eldest of the nine children of John William Westcott (born 1864 in Devon, England) and Mary Alice Ruth Rush (born 1871 in Leyburn, QLD). John was a Farmer's son when he immigrated to QLD, and in 1892 he was a Grazier when he married Mary at Mitchell, Maranoa, QLD. John and Mary raised their family at Mitchell, QLD.
Roy was a Grazier at Sandford, Mitchell, Maranoa when he enlisted in the AIF in August 1916. He served as a Private and Lance Corporal (Service No:2913) with 6th Reinforcements 41st Infantry Battalion, Machine Gun Corps Details and 1st Machine Gun Battalion. Roy was WiA in France in September 1918 - GSW to left leg - and was Discharged in April 1919.
Roy returned to Mitchell, QLD and was a Grazier when he married Ellen O'Connor (born 1892 at Crow's Nest on the Darling Downs in QLD) in 1920. Roy and Ellen settled at Mitchell - Ashford and Sandford - where Roy was a Grazier. By 1954 they had moved to Toowoomba, QLD where Ellen died in 1978 and Roy in 1982.
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