CONNORS, Roderick
| Service Number: | 1933 |
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| Enlisted: | 1 February 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 49th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales, April 1888 |
| Home Town: | Townsville, Townsville, Queensland |
| Schooling: | St Patricks, Grangetown, Cardiff, Wales |
| Occupation: | Seaman |
| Died: | Killed in action, Mouquet Farm, France, 5 September 1916 |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 1 Feb 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1933, 9th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 16 Apr 1915: | Involvement Private, 1933, 9th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '9' embarkation_place: Brisbane embarkation_ship: HMAT Kyarra embarkation_ship_number: A55 public_note: '' | |
| 16 Apr 1915: | Embarked Private, 1933, 9th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Kyarra, Brisbane | |
| 2 Apr 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 49th Infantry Battalion | |
| 2 Aug 1916: | Promoted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 49th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Roderick Connors, a Welshman, enlisted on during February 1915 at the recruiting office in Townsville, Queensland. He was a seaman and was in Australia at the time, when the call for recruits was high, and explains how a young man from Grangetown, a suburb of Cardiff, Wales, ended up as an Anzac.
Roderick joined up with the 9th Battalion at Anzac Cove on 22 June 1915. He was hospitalised with ‘neuralgia’, or debility, during September 1915 and eventually transferred to Malta and then to a hospital in Birmingham, England. Whilst still in Britain, he was punished in Weymouth for overstaying Christmas leave. It’s quite possible that he went home to Cardiff for the Christmas period, despite not having leave to do so. It cost him 10 days confined to barracks. He was shipped back to Egypt, and transferred to the 49th Battalion, during the reorganisation of the AIF.
He died during the very heavy fighting that took place during the Australians last assault on Mouquet Farm in 1916 and has no known grave. His name is remembered on the Grangetown War Memorial in Wales. He was the son of Michael and Emily Connors and had nine brothers and sisters.