MCCOURT, Joseph Roley
| Service Number: | 14494 |
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| Enlisted: | 14 November 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Army Medical Corps (AIF) |
| Born: | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, date not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Haberfield, City of Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Five Dock Sydney Public School, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Grocer |
| Died: | 17 November 1959, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered, age not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Darwin General Cemetery, N.T. |
| Memorials: | Sydney Technical High School WW1 Roll Of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 14 Nov 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Driver, 14494, Army Medical Corps (AIF) | |
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| 22 Aug 1916: | Involvement Private, 14494, Army Medical Corps (AIF), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '23' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Wiltshire embarkation_ship_number: A18 public_note: '' | |
| 22 Aug 1916: | Embarked Private, 14494, Army Medical Corps (AIF), HMAT Wiltshire, Sydney |
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Joseph Roley McCourt - 14494
Joseph Roley McCourt was born in the 1890’s in Sydney, New South Wales in a suburb called Haberfield in which he grew up in with his father, Michael McCourt and his mum. He attended Five Dock Sydney Public School and Sydney Technical High School, graduating in 1915 which was the same year as when he enlisted in World War 1. Before the war he worked as a grocer.
He enlisted in the AIF the 14th of November 1915 just after graduating, joining the army as a Private. McCourt joined the Australian Army Medical Corps (AAMC) July 1916 reinforcements in which he was in the 14th Field Ambulance. As the name suggests, the AAMC was also a part of the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) and worked in rescuing and assisting Australian soldiers with medical care.
His unit departed on the 22nd of August 1916 aboard the HMAT A18 Wiltshire from NSW. He arrived at Plymouth in England almost two months later on October 13th then proceeded to France in which he changed battalions to the 5th division of the Australian Army Medical Corps and was assigned to be a driver¹.Twice he returned back to England for leave, firstly on the 18th of January 1918 and returned back on the 8th of February 1918, and the second time was on the 9th of October 1918 and he rejoined back a month later on 9th of November 1918.
He returned to Australia on the Themistocles after being discharged on the 7th of December 1919 due to an unknown illness.
Joseph Roley Mccourt passed away on the 17th of November 1959, buried in the Darwin General Cemetery.
Bibliography
22nd Infantry Battalion, Australian War memorial, https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/U51462
1918: Australia’s medical personnel, Australian war Memorial, 3 February 2020, https://www.awm.gov.au/visit/exhibitions/1918/medical
Joseph Roley Mccourt, Research on Google Drive
Alexia Moncreiff, “We are entitled to some control”: The Australian Army Medical Corps in the First World War, Adelaide research and Scholarship , 2017 https://digital.library.adelaide.edu.au/dspace/handle/2440/136349
Fumblina, Help Interpreting the B103 form, The Great War (1914-18) Forum, 6th of December 2022,https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/301638-help-interpreting-b103-form/
(1)World war One Great War Stories, driver, https://www.worldwar1luton.com/individual-title/driver#:~:text=Driver%20(Dvr)%20was%20a%20military,horses%20which%20pulled%20the%20guns.