MILTON, Roy Clifford
| Service Number: | 31 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 8th Machine Gun Company |
| Born: | Newtown, New South Wales, Australia, 27 January 1897 |
| Home Town: | Tamworth, Tamworth Municipality, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Sydney C of E Grammar School, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 20 July 1916, aged 19 years |
| Cemetery: |
Rue-Petillon Military Cemetery, Fleurbaix, Bethune, Nord Pas de Calais |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, North Sydney - Sydney Grammar School Lance Corporal Roy Milton Memorial Window, Northbridge (Shore) Sydney Church of England Grammar School Memorial Cricket Ground Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 9 Nov 1915: | Involvement Private, 31, 30th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Beltana embarkation_ship_number: A72 public_note: '' | |
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| 9 Nov 1915: | Embarked Private, 31, 30th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Beltana, Sydney | |
| 20 Jul 1916: | Involvement Private, 31, 8th Machine Gun Company, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 31 awm_unit: 8th Australian Machine Gun Company awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1916-07-20 | |
| Date unknown: | Involvement 30th Infantry Battalion, Fromelles (Fleurbaix) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Lance-Corporal Roy Clifford Milton, killed in action in France on July 20, 1916, during the Big Push, was the younger of the two enlisted sons of Mr. W. J. Milton, district secretary of the A.M.P. Society at Tamworth, N.S Wales. The soldier-boy, who was 19½ years of age, was educated at the Rockhampton Grammar School (Q.) and Sydney Church of England North Sydney, and was a fine athletic young Australian, having represented the Rockhampton Grammar School in the football competition for the Chelmsford Cup in 1912, and stroked the winning crew of the S.C.E.G.S. in the Champion Eights at the G.P.S. regatta in 1915, just prior to enlisting in the A.I.F., straight from school in July of that year. He also played as a representative in the N.S. Wales Combined G.P.S. first football learn in 1914, As he intended taking the engineering course at the Sydney University, his death will be a loss to the athletic life of that institution.
Referee (Sydney, NSW), 15 November 1916.