RODWAY, Walter Thomas
| Service Number: | 3175 |
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| Enlisted: | 11 July 1916, 4th Regiment |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 1st Pioneer Battalion |
| Born: | Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, April 1878 |
| Home Town: | Adamstown, Newcastle, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Machinist or fettler |
| Died: | Adamstown, New South Wales, Australia, 19 August 1956, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW ANGLICAN 3-196. 8. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 11 Jul 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3175, 1st Pioneer Battalion, 4th Regiment | |
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| 17 Oct 1916: | Involvement Private, 3175, 1st Pioneer Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '4' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Borda embarkation_ship_number: A30 public_note: '' | |
| 17 Oct 1916: | Embarked Private, 3175, 1st Pioneer Battalion, HMAT Borda, Sydney | |
| 10 Nov 1916: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 3175, 1st Pioneer Battalion, 2nd MD, Medically unfit |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Enlisted during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
68 years ago today, on the 21st August 1956, Acting Sergeant Walter Thomas John Rodway, 1st Australian Pioneer Battalion (Reg No-3175), machinist or fettler from Edden Street, Adamstown, New South Wales, father of three (Walter Francis, Marian May, David Clyde), was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 75. ANGLICAN 3-196. 8.
Born at Hobart, Tasmania about 1881 to Walter Francis and Marion Rodway; husband of Agnes Rodway nee Tripney, married 1900, Adamstown, N.S.W., died 13.1.1965, Taree, N.S.W., age 84, Wal enlisted on the 11th July 1916 at Broadmeadow, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A30 Borda on the 17th October 1916.
Disembarked at Melbourne 19.10.1916 (sick, diphtheria).
Wal was discharged on the 10th November 1916.
Mr. Rodway’s name has been inscribed on the Adamstown Citizens' Memorial and the Adamstown Municipal District Roll of Honor.
I have placed poppies at Wal’s gravesite in remembrance of his sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Not officially commemorated.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered“.
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/.
Lest We Forget.
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