ROBERTS, Darcy James
| Service Number: | 799 |
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| Enlisted: | 2 December 1914, Holdsworthy, NSW, Australia |
| Last Rank: | Trooper |
| Last Unit: | 1st Light Horse Regiment |
| Born: | Port Augusta, South Australia, 20 September 1893 |
| Home Town: | Sturt, Marion, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Station Hand |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Gallipoli, Gallipoli, Dardanelles, Turkey, 6 August 1915, aged 21 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" No Known Grave The Lone Pine Memorial (Panel 2), Gallipoli, Turkey, Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey |
| Memorials: | Adelaide National War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Lone Pine Memorial to the Missing, Marion District Roll of Honour WW1, Marion War Memorial, Port Augusta Christ Church Memorial Altar |
World War 1 Service
| 2 Dec 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Holdsworthy, NSW, Australia | |
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| 6 Feb 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 799, 1st Light Horse Regiment, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '1' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Clan MacCorquodale embarkation_ship_number: A6 public_note: '' | |
| 6 Feb 1915: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 799, 1st Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Clan MacCorquodale, Sydney | |
| 6 Aug 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Trooper, 799, 1st Light Horse Regiment, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 799 awm_unit: 1st Australian Light Horse Regiment awm_rank: Trooper awm_died_date: 1915-08-06 |
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Fiona McIntosh - author of "Nightingale"
Excerpt from the Acknowledgments.
"Darcy Roberts was just twenty when he passed away and was like so many other braves who volunteered from Australia: he fought in a war not of his making, one that took place on the other side of the world. According to his family he was a gifted horseman and, like the majority of mounted soldiers, he would have hated leaving behind his beloved horse in Cairo when the Light Horse Brigade was posted from Egypt to the Dardenelles to fight as infantry. The Battle of Lone Pine over three days resulted in some of the fiercest and most heroic fighting of the Turkish Campaign with devastating losses on both sides, amounting to eight thousand lives given and countless injured. It's impossible not to weep when you walk through the Lone Pine Cemetery, now so peaceful and picturesque."