FERGUSON, Roy Albert
| Service Number: | 4771 |
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| Enlisted: | 3 November 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 10th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Adelaide South Australia, date not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Kent Town, Norwood Payneham St Peters, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Sisters of St Joseph, South Australia |
| Occupation: | Hairdresser |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Broodseinde Ridge, Ypres, Belgium, 8 October 1917, age not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial, Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium |
| Memorials: | Adelaide National War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Norwood War Memorial, Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 3 Nov 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4771, 10th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 9 Mar 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 4771, 10th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: RMS Mongolia embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
| 29 Jul 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 4771, 10th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières | |
| 8 Oct 1917: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 4771, 10th Infantry Battalion, 1st Passchendaele |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Steve Larkins
Private Roy Ferguson was a Stretcher Bearer with C Coy of the 10th Battalion at the time of his death. At that time they had occupied a position on Broodseinde Ridge which was subject to enemy shelling. The shell that wounded Ferguson, killed his colleague 5351 Private Gilbert Walker Davis, MM, who was awarded the MM for work the day prior to his death, and mortally wounded 6844 Private William Vawser . They were located together in the trench where the shell detonated.
Davis and Ferguson were buried together in the field but their graves were lost due to subsequent shelling. A number of bodies were discovered by Graves Regstrations units in 1920 in this vicinity but apart from two particular cases there was no means by which they could be identified; the remains were interred "An Australian Soldier of the Great War Known unto God". (1) Davis and Ferguson are commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing. Private Vawser was buried in the Lissenthoek Hospital Cemetey.
Composite entry compiled in part by John Edwards and Steve Larkins
(1) 'Raid on Celtic Wood' Robert Kearney 2017 pp158-160
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