ANZAC Heroes | Great War 1914 – 1918

Bunbury – Wellington District Western Australia

ARMSTRONG, Roy Bunbury

ARMSTRONG, Roy Bunbury

Full Name: Roy Bunbury

ARMSTRONG

Date of Birth: 10

–

1892

Place of birth: Bunbury

Australia

Occupation: Farm Labourer

Address: Greenbushes WA

Next of Kin: Father- Lindsay Richard Armstrong Mother- Agnes Kate Armstrong

Next of Kin Address: Greenbushes WA

Religion: Church of England

Service Number: 2799

Rank: Trooper

Unit/Division: 15th Lighthorse

Enlistment Date: 1916-10-19

Enlistment Location: Bunbury

WA

Embarkation Port:

Embarkation Date: 1917-05-22

Embarkation Ship:

Disembarkation Port:

Disembarkation Date: 1917-06-20

Locations Served:

Returned: No

Discharge Date:

Cause of Death: Died of Disease ( Bronchitis/Pneumonia

Date of Death:

Place of Death: Beirut Lebanon

Age at Death: 26

Burial Location: Beirut , Lebanon, Military Cemetery Row 2 Grave No. 20

12/10/1916- Completed Application for Enlistment & Preliminary Medical Examination Greenbushes
19/10/1916- Completed Enrolment & Medical Examination Blackboy Hill Camp WA
24/10/1916- To 89 Depot Blackboy Hill as Private
16/11/1916- Joined 24th  Reinforcements 16th Battalion Blackboy Hill
24/11/1916- To No. 22 Depot Blackboy Hill
23/01/1917-  To No. 48 Depot Blackboy Hill
30/01/1917- Joined 25th Reinforcements 11th Battalion Blackboy Hill
08/03/1917- To Light Horse Reinforcements Claremont WA
15/03/1917- Training with Camel Corps Claremont
22/05/1917- Embarked Fremantle WA aboard ” Boorara” bound for Egypt
20/06/1917- Disembarked Alexandria Egypt to Overseas Training Base
16/07/1917- To 1st Camel Brigade Moascar Egypt Isolation Camp
25/08/1917- To 4th Anzac Battalion Camel Brigade at Abbassia Egypt
19/07/1918- Transferred to 15th Light Horse Brigade Egypt
24/10/1918- Admitted 32nd Clearing Hospital Beirut Lebanon ( Pyrexia NYD )
30/10/1918- Died in 32nd Clearing Hospital Beirut Lebanon of Broncho Pneumonia Disease.

SERVICE MEDALS AWARDED

British War Medal No. 57441

Victory Medal No. 56441

Memorial Plaque/Scroll No. 354055.

 

MEMORIAL INSCRIPTIONS

Bunbury War Memorial WA

Greenbushes War Memorial WA

Australian War Memorial Canberra ACT Panel No. 9.

 

SOLDIERS BROTHERS ALSO SERVED

2800– ARMSTRONG, Pte Ernest Richard, 4th Imperial Camel Corps, Returned to Australia- 27/07/1919.

1534– ARMSTRONG, Pte Bertram Foster, 10th Light Horse Regiment, Returned to Australia- 10/07/1919.