Virtual
War Memorial
Australia

Rollie left school at the young age of 12 to help work and support his mother .He worked doing odd jobs and carting stockfeed .At a very young age of 12 he already knew how to drive a truck and could manage to load a lorry and drive considerable distances with stock feed . Before he enlisted he worked as a postal truck driver at Walgett and the outlying towns he then married Elsie and had three daughter.Rollie enlisted and was sent to Horne Island .As a child he would tell me stories of his time there and how the solders sat back to back at night because of the fear of headhunters . He was very sympathetic about the Japanese solders saying that most of those they captured were just young boys .Rollie always spent time with his mates at the RSL in Granville .Every Anzac Day he would dress up and go to the March and of course play two up .He was very loving kind man and I was privileged to call him Pop .
The images of war always haunted him and his stories will always live on in me .
‘Greatly loved sadly missed ‘