STRICKLAND, Roland Roy
| Service Number: | 6562 |
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| Enlisted: | 5 August 1916, Melbourne |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 6th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Albert Park, Victoria, Australia , 1887 |
| Home Town: | Williamstown (Vic), Hobsons Bay, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Melbourne Grammar School, St Kilda, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
| Died: | Died of wounds, Belgium - Broodseinde Ridge, 4 October 1917 |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" |
| Memorials: | Melbourne Grammar School WW1 Fallen Honour Roll, Menin Gate Memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing of the Ypres Salient), Williamstown Pictorial Honour Board |
World War 1 Service
| 5 Aug 1916: | Enlisted Australian Army (Post WW2), Private, 6562, 6th Infantry Battalion, Melbourne | |
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| 2 Oct 1916: | Involvement Private, 6562, 6th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Nestor embarkation_ship_number: A71 public_note: '' | |
| 2 Oct 1916: | Embarked Private, 6562, 6th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Nestor, Melbourne | |
| 4 Oct 1917: | Involvement Australian Army (Post WW2), Corporal, 6562, 6th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From How We Served
The private commemoration for; - 6562a Corporal Roland (aka Ronald) Roy Strickland of Williamstown and Rochester, Victoria, who prior to his enlistment for War Service on the 5th of August 1916 had been engaged in farming.
Roy was allocated to reinforcements for the 6th Battalion 1st AIF and was embarked for England and further training on the 2nd of October. Following periods at training depots in England, Roy was sent over to France on the 16th of July 1917, and after being transferred to the 21st Battalion, he was formally taken on strength with his Unit in the trenches on the 18th of August. Roy’s Battalion was committed to the ‘Third Battle of Ypres’, and was sent to Belgium.
It would be during operations to capture Broodseinde Ridge, on the 4th of October 1917 that Roy was reported as initially seriously wounded in action, and later verified as having died of these wounds on the same day. Roy was aged 29 at the time of his death.
There is no known grave for Roy, and due to having no place of known burial he has been instead officially commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium.
Back home in Australia the supreme sacrifice made by Corpoal Roy Strickland during the ‘Great War’ was to be privately commemorated at the Strickland family’s collective burial site within Williamstown General Cemetery, Victoria.
Biography contributed by Sharyn Roberts
Son of Frederick William STRICKLAND and Mary Jane ROY
Roland Roy STRICKLAND who died of wounds in France on 4th October 1917 was the son of Pilot Strickland, of Williamstown. He was born in 1887 and was at the School in 1902-03.
He had gone in for a country life on leaving School, and was on an irrigation block at Nannella Estate, Rochester, when he enlisted. He left Melbourne in August 1916 as Corporal in the 6th Battalion, and was subsequently transferred to the 21st Battalion.
He was in the Battle of Broodseinde, and received wounds which resulted in his death.
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