WHALAN, Wilson Royal
| Service Number: | 351 |
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| Enlisted: | 8 March 1915, Liverpool, New South Wales |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 19th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Oberon, New South Wales, Australia, 8 September 1894 |
| Home Town: | Hurstville Grove, Kogarah, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Oberon School, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Railway Porter |
| Died: | Natural Causes, Cudal, , New South Wales, Australia, 22 July 1979, aged 84 years |
| Cemetery: |
Woronora Memorial Park, Sutherland, New South Wales DD, ROSE GARDEN 11, Position 0075 |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 8 Mar 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Liverpool, New South Wales | |
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| 25 Jun 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 351, 19th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '13' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ceramic embarkation_ship_number: A40 public_note: Names incorrectly recorded a Royal William Whalen on original record | |
| 25 Jun 1915: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 351, 19th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ceramic, Melbourne |
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Wilson Royal (Roy) WHALAN - (Royal William Whalen in some Army records), born 1894, registered at Oberon; an unmarried railway porter aged 21 years and a Methodist resident of Oberon. Joined “A” Company of the 19th Infantry Battalion, 5th Infantry Brigade, AIF, on 8 March 1915 SERN: 351, also embarked on HMAT Ceramic, apparently in Melbourne on 25 June 1915; he landed at Gallipoli about the same time as 1336 Gunner Glen Whalan (/explore/people/288109). He also had older brother 255 Albert Harper Whalan MM (/explore/people/292372) wounded when the 9th batt. landed on the 25th April.
After Gallipoli he went to the Trench Mortar Battery, he landed in Marseilles 25.3.1916
Roy was wounded on 14.11.1917 in France & spent time in Hospital in the U.K. Roy returned to France in March 1918.
Private Roy Whalen returned to Australia on 5 April 1919. the only 1 of 4 brothers to return.
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