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Private Roy George Webeck (Service No:N480306) enlisted in the ACMF on 20 September 1944, and was attached to Recruit Training Centre at Discharge on 4 July 1946.

Roy was born in Cunnumulla, QLD in 1925, seventh of nine children of George Thomas Webeck (b1875 in Maitland, New South Wales) and Ruth (Annie) May Sills (b1894 in Tenterfield, New South Wales). George was a Selector and Labourer in Namoi before he and Annie married in 1912 in Walgett. In the mid 1920s the couple moved their family to Cunnumulla in QLD, where George was Manager on Killara Station.  By 1928 Annie had returned to New South Wales with the children, settling in Wee Waa. George returned in 1930 and worked as a Station Hand at Cryon Station before retiring to Narrabri.

Roy worked in the Wee Waa district as a Drover's Assistant, and in 1943 in Narrabri married Verna Noelene Kelly (b1928 in Moree, New South Wales). Following his Discharge from the Army, Roy and Verna settled in Sydney, where they raised their family and Roy was a Rubber Worker. In the early 1960s Roy worked as a Station Hand at Bald Hills via Narrabri, and in the 1970s was a Labourer in Cronulla. Roy died in 1990, and Verna in 2001 (Verna was  killed in the Quaker's Hill Nursing Home fire, intentionally lit by Nurse Roger Dean).