Roy Campbell MUNRO

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MUNRO, Roy Campbell

Service Number:	1876
Enlisted:	1 July 1915
Last Rank:	Sergeant
Last Unit:	28th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Armadale, Victoria, Australia, 8 February 1895
Home Town:	Claremont, Western Australia
Schooling:	Claremont State School, Western Australia
Occupation:	Draughtsman
Died:	Killed in Action, France, 26 February 1917, aged 22 years
Cemetery:	Warlencourt British Cemetery Plot VIII, Row D, Grave No. 48. DEEDS NOT WORDS WON THE EMPIRE
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Camberwell War Memorial, Claremont St. Aidan's Memorial Window

World War 1 Service

1 Jul 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Sergeant, 1876, 28th Infantry Battalion
2 Sep 1915:	Involvement 1876, 28th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Anchises embarkation_ship_number: A68 public_note: ''
2 Sep 1915:	Embarked 1876, 28th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Anchises, Fremantle
26 Feb 1917:	Involvement Sergeant, 1876, 28th Infantry Battalion, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 1876 awm_unit: 28 Battalion awm_rank: Sergeant awm_died_date: 1917-02-26

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Biography contributed by Stephen Brooks

Roy Campbell Munro was the brother of Norman Alexander Munro, also of the 28th Battalion, who was killed at Russell’s Top on Gallipoli on 16 December 1915, aged nineteen. Another older brother, Gunner Eric James Garfield Munro, was killed in an air raid at Woolwich, England 16 February 1918, aged 24.

They were all the sons of John James and Annie Caskie Munro, of Claremont, Western Australia. Their father had died during 1911, so their widowed mother Annie was left to deal with their affairs, and three younger sons.

Roy enlisted in mid-1915 and was at Gallipoli by October 1915. He was badly wounded at Pozieres on 29 July 1916 and spent almost six months in England recovering. He was killed in action only a few weeks after rejoining his Battalion in France during February 1917. He was buried in an isolated grave which was found during 1920 and his remains were interred in the Warlencourt British Cemetery.

A death notice in the Melbourne Argus March 1917, “Killed in action on the 26th February, Roy Campbell Munro, second son of the late John James and Annie Caskie Munro, of Claremont, W.A.”

“And they wrapt the colours round his breast, On a blood red field in France."

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