Pemberton, Ray Torrens Michael

Gosford District Casualties of World War One

Bragg, Edmund Allen Service Number 1494

Killed in Action 19th May 1915 Gallipoli Peninsula

Gosford District Casualties of World War One

Pemberton, Ray Torrens Michael Service Number 4506

Killed in Action 14th November 1916 France

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NAME Pemberton, Roy Torrens Michael

SERVICE NO 4506

UNIT 19th Battalion

RANK Private

AGE at Enlistment 21 yrs 1 mth

PLACE OF BIRTH Gosford, NSW

ADDRESS 27 Burfitt St. Leichhardt

OCCUPATION Farmer

DATE OF ENLISTMENT 13 Dec 1915

PLACE OF ENLIST-MENT

Casula, NSW

PREVIOUS SERVICE

NEXT OF KIN Father;- George Pemberton, West St., Five Dock (died) Mother, Margaret Pemberton, 2 Great Nth Rd., Five Dock.

PHYSICAL DESCRIP-TION

Height-5’5”. Weight-9 st 5 lbs. Chest-32-36”. Complexion-Fresh. Eyes-Brown. Hair-L. Brown.

RELIGION R/C

EMBARKED

DISEMBARKED

NOTES

WOUNDED/ILLNESS 4 Oct 1916-Mulitpule bomb wounds back- France, result of an accident Mille hand grenade going off in the trench

DIED 14 Nov 1916-

BURIED

MEDALS British War Medal-36456, Victory Medal-36177. Memorial Plaque & Scroll-311179.

DEPENDANTS Mother;-

PERSONAL EFFECTS Belt, shaving brush/

Gosford Times 17th December 1915 Roy Pemberton a grandson of our PM, who has grown up amongst us, has enlisted and gone to camp. He has a cousin there already, and his uncle Percy, "one of the best, of former Creek boys," has been in Egypt with the A M C for the past six months. He joined in Western Australia, where he settled some 10 years ago.

Gosford Times 30th November 1916 There's a report going round that Syd Woodbury and Percy Davis have been invalided home, and will be back for Xmas. Good news for their home folk, if true. Roy Pemberton, who was wounded some weeks ago, is nearly alright again.

Gosford Times 8th February 1917 Particulars of poor Roy Pemberton's death have reached his people. His mate, writing, says "Roy and I had just taken shelter in a shell hole when a bullet struck my pal in the head and he was killed instantly."

Sydney Morning Herald 17th November 1917 pg. 11 PEMBERTON- In loving memory of Private Roy Pemberton, killed in action in France, November 14, 1916, aged 21 years O, God, grant us victory, That his young life was not given in vain. Inserted by his sincere friend, E M Woodbury

Abridged record/s courtesy of the National Archives of Australia (NAA) Series No: B2455 Item Barcode: 8014198




























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