YEOMANS, Roy Francis
| Service Number: | NX21327 |
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| Enlisted: | 24 May 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/17th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Warren, New South Wales, Australia, 23 December 1918 |
| Home Town: | Walgett, Walgett, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Warren, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Lorry Driver |
| Died: | Pneumonia, Rozelle,New South Wales, Australia, 2 November 1987, aged 68 years |
| Cemetery: |
Botany General Cemetery, New South Wales Lawn Cemetery .Buried on the 9th |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 24 May 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, NX21327 | |
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| 21 Mar 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, NX21327, 2nd/17th Infantry Battalion |
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Our Beautiful Uncles Life
Born in Warren 21/12/1918 and christened at Warren Catholic Church . The second youngest son of Charlotte and Robert Yeomans .
Roy attended Warren Catholic School till the age of 9 as a very young boy to help support his family doing odd job and carpentry for Mr Saunders of Warren .At a very young age Mr Saunders taught him to drive .
Roy was an extremely gentle man and full of empathy for others .
In 1940 while working as a lorry driver he enlisted like his brothers to join the Australian Army at the young age of 22 a young single man .
He and his brothers were willing to their very best for their country . With very little training at Ingelburn and Bathurst in 1940 he was shipped off to fight alongside of his mates in the 2/17 Battalion his service NX21327 . He left Australia on the 'Queen Mary ' on the 20th October 1940 and served at Tobruk for the full siege of 7 month and one week and then continued on to served for five months at El Alamein .He then returned to Sydney on 28/2/1943 and he was discharged at Victoria barracks Sydney in 21st March 1945.
Uncle Roy while at Tobruk was given the job of collecting dog tags of fallen solders and pulling injured solders back into the trenches all the time while under fire from bullets and shelling . Uncle Roy suffered from shell shock and to make matters worse he came down with measles and had very poor medical treatment .He was marked AWL while having treatment for measles and injuries .
Uncle Roy was so frail of mind at the end of the his war service in Egypt he was sent back in a crate to Australia .He was never offered assistance for his frail mind when back in Australia and was quite dysfunctional and unable to hold down a job . It is recorded in his records about his permanent eye injury and that will never recover from his permanent nerve condition ( due to a breakdown)
His poor mother tried her very best to support him and get him help. Back at home he was at the mercy of friends and family to try to help him . Poor Uncle Roy found comfort in alcohol to try to cope with the flashbacks .He was bashed by men who stole his bag with his papers of his discharge and the result of this gave him head injuries .
In total Uncle Roy served a total of 791 days in full active service equating to 28 months on the battlefield . His medal have never been awarded even after multiple requests by himself and later of his close relatives that loved him dearly .
Dedicated by his loving Nieces
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