MOODY, Sydney Roland
| Service Number: | 4452 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | 1st Division Artillery |
| Born: | Prahran, Victoria, Australia, 8 December 1895 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Engineer |
| Died: | East Doncaster, Victoria, Australia, 31 October 1976, aged 80 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 28 Jun 1915: | Involvement Driver, 4452, 2nd Field Artillery Brigade , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '3' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Berrima embarkation_ship_number: A35 public_note: '' | |
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| 28 Jun 1915: | Embarked Driver, 4452, 2nd Field Artillery Brigade , HMAT Berrima, Melbourne | |
| 28 Aug 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Sergeant, 4452, 1st Division Artillery |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Philip Clewlow
"Rol" was my wife’s grandfather. He was discharged on 28/8/1919 and, in 1922, married Rose Veronica Uren at the Wesley Chapel in Lonsdale St Melbourne, and had 2 children - a boy (Sydney) and a girl (Elizabeth). They last resided in East Doncaster, Victoria. Rol died in October 1976, about 4 years after I met him. His wife died in 1979. His son (my father-in-law) died in 2011.
Rol was a kind and gentle man and a talented engineer. After WW1, he ran his own engineering business in La Trobe Street, Melbourne. My wife still remembers the smell of oil and metal when visiting his business premises as a young girl.
Like many young men of that time, Rol enlisted as a 19-year old, and served for 4 years in Europe and Egypt. Whilst away from Australia, Rol's father died.
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