EDGE, Roy James
| Service Number: | 4261 |
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| Enlisted: | 23 February 1916, 2 years senior cadets |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 21st Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | North Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia, January 1896 |
| Home Town: | North Fitzroy, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Grocer |
| Died: | Wounds, 20th Casualty Clearing Station, Vignacourt, France, 27 April 1918 |
| Cemetery: |
Vignacourt British Cemetery, Picardie Plot I, Row C, Grave No. 4 |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 23 Feb 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4261, 21st Infantry Battalion, 2 years senior cadets | |
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| 7 Mar 1916: | Involvement Private, 4261, 21st Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '13' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Wiltshire embarkation_ship_number: A18 public_note: '' | |
| 7 Mar 1916: | Embarked Private, 4261, 21st Infantry Battalion, HMAT Wiltshire, Melbourne |
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From How We Served
4261 Private Roy James Edge had been employed as a grocer of North Fitzroy, Victoria, when he enlisted for War Service on the 23rd of February 1916 at the age of 20.
Roy was allocated to reinforcements for the 21st Battalion 1st AIF and was embarked for England on the 7th of March 1916. After further training he was sent over to Northern France to join his Battalion and entered the trenches on the 28th of August 1916.
On the 15th of November Roy was evacuated back to England with trench feet and was about to be returned to France when he contracted influenza which caused him to be re-admitted into hospital on the 15th of January 1917.
Roy soon recovered and returned to France prior to his Battalion being sent to Belgium where they had been committed to the 'Third Battle of Ypres'. Roy was evacuated back to England having sustained a gunshot wound to the leg on the 4th of October, and after further treatment and convalescence he was deemed again fit for the trenches.
Roy rejoined his Battalion in the field, which by then had been returned to Northern France, on the 13th of February 1918.
Having just returned to his Unit, Roy was again evacuated from the trenches on the 22nd of April, having received serious injuries caused by multiple shrapnel wounds to his lower back and right arm.
Roy would succumb to these wounds whilst still being treated at the 20th Casualty Clearing Station on the 27th of April 1918. He had been aged 22.
Following his death Roy would be formally interred within the Vignacourt British Cemetery, Vignacourt, Picardie, France.
Back home in Australia Private Roy Edge's grieving parents would have their son's supreme sacrifice made during the 'Great War' memorialized at the Edge family's collective gravesite located within Warringal Cemetery, Victoria.
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