JOYCE, Reginald Alfred
| Service Number: | 8123 |
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| Enlisted: | 5 September 1917 |
| Last Rank: | Sapper |
| Last Unit: | 3rd Tunnelling Company (inc. 6th Tunnelling Company) |
| Born: | Penrith, New South Wales, Australia, 13 January 1891 |
| Home Town: | Weston, Cessnock, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Miner |
| Died: | Train accident, Maitland Hospital, New South Wales, Australia, 26 December 1951, aged 60 years |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW CATHOLIC 2-53. 100. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 5 Sep 1917: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Sapper, 8123, 3rd Tunnelling Company (inc. 6th Tunnelling Company) | |
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| 26 Nov 1917: | Involvement Sapper, 8123, Tunnelling Companies, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: SS Indarra embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
| 26 Nov 1917: | Embarked Sapper, 8123, Tunnelling Companies, SS Indarra, Melbourne | |
| 9 Oct 1920: | Discharged AIF WW1, Sapper, 8123, 3rd Tunnelling Company (inc. 6th Tunnelling Company), 2nd MD |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served and suffered during The Great War, died tragically, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
73 years ago today, on the Friday morning of the 28th December 1951, Sapper Reginald Alfred Joyce, referred to as Sailor, 3rd Australian Tunnelling Company (Reg No-8123), miner from Second Street, Weston, New South Wales and 168 and 170 Darby Street, Cooks Hill, N.S.W., father of four?, was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 61. CATHOLIC 2-53. 100.
Born at Penrith, New South Wales on the 13th January 1891 as Alfred Reginald to Alfred Henry and Mary Ann Joyce; husband of Ida Theresa or Teresa Joyce nee Sweeney, married 1913, Newcastle, N.S.W., died 16.8.1968, Newcastle, N.S.W., sleeping here, from 70 Abbot Street, West Maitland, New South Wales, Sailor enlisted on the 5th September 1917 with the Tunnelling Companies-June 1917 Reinforcements at Cessnock, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria on board SS Indarra on the 26th November 1917.
Wounded in action - 8.10.1918 (gassed).
Commenced return to Australia 23.7.1919.
Sailor arrived home on the 15th October 1919, not being discharged until the 9th October 1920.
Mr. Joyce’s name has been inscribed on the Maitland & District Municipal Roll of Honor and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall. The district of Weston did not produce a War Memorial or Roll of Honour.
The tragic circumstances of Sailors death were reported - victim of train accident.
I have placed poppies at Sailors’s gravesite in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Service record states Died after Discharge, 26/12/1951.
Officially commemorated 16.6.1952 – https://connect.dva.gov.au/.../viewCommemoration.html....
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered“.
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/.
Lest We Forget.
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