Richard Thomas CARROLL

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CARROLL, Richard Thomas

Service Number:	4470
Enlisted:	9 October 1915
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	52nd Infantry Battalion
Born:	Irishtown, Tasmania, Australia, 6 November 1894
Home Town:	Irishtown, Tasmania
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Killed in action, Mouquet Farm, France, 4 September 1916, aged 21 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Stanley Circular Head War Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France)

World War 1 Service

9 Oct 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4470, 12th Infantry Battalion
8 Feb 1916:	Involvement Private, 4470, 12th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Warilda embarkation_ship_number: A69 public_note: ''
8 Feb 1916:	Embarked Private, 4470, 12th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Warilda, Melbourne
4 Sep 1916:	Involvement Private, 4470, 52nd Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 4470 awm_unit: 52nd Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1916-09-04

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Biography contributed by Stephen Brooks

Richard Thomas Carroll of Irishtown, Tasmania was the son of Dennis Patrick and Ann Carroll. On 4 September 1916 he was killed in action at Mouquet Farm in the Pozieres area of France, while serving with the 52nd Battalion. The fact that his cousin, 4469 Thomas Richard Carroll, also of Irishtown, was also killed in the same action with the 52nd Battalion, caused some confusion with their identities. Both were first reported as missing.

Richard was known as ‘Dick’ and several eye witness accounts reported he was hit in the head by a sniper and killed instantly. He was confirmed during April 1917 as killed in action on 4 September 1916.

His mother and father both passed away during 1929 and his elder brother Patrick received his British War Medal during 1933.

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