REEDY, Roger Patrick
| Service Number: | 1311 |
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| Enlisted: | 22 October 1914 |
| Last Rank: | Driver |
| Last Unit: | 4th Infantry Brigade Train |
| Born: | Camden, New South Wales, Australia, 1891 |
| Home Town: | Ashfield, Ashfield, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | St. Marys, Concord, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Farm labourer |
| Died: | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 18 September 1951, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Macquarie Park Cemetery and Crematorium, Ryde, New South Wales |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 22 Oct 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Driver, 1311, 4th Infantry Brigade Train | |
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| 21 Dec 1914: | Involvement Driver, 1311, 4th Infantry Brigade Train, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '22' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Port Macquarie embarkation_ship_number: A39 public_note: '' | |
| 21 Dec 1914: | Embarked Driver, 1311, 4th Infantry Brigade Train, HMAT Port Macquarie, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Roger Patrick Reedy, at 22 years of age, was the oldest of three brothers who enlisted and served overseas during WW1, all sons of Camden born Roger and Ann Reedy. Roger was the only one who returned to Australia. The Reedy family lived in Camden, before relocating to Ashfield and Croydon.
Roger enlisted during October 1914, and left for overseas a few days before Christmas 1914, with the 4th Infantry Brigade Train. He served at the landing on Anzac Cove on 25 April 1915 until he was taken off Gallipoli on a hospital ship two weeks later with influenza.
He was shipped to France during June 1916 with the 27th Company, Australian Army Service Corps.
His younger brother, 2220 Pte. Arthur Ambrose Reedy 3rd Battalion AIF was killed in action at Pozieres on 22 July 1916, aged 20 and an even younger brother, 6886 Pte. John Vincent Reedy 8th Battalion AIF, was killed in action in Belgium on 25 October 1917, aged 19.
Roger Reedy was transferred to England on 1 March 1918 and sent home to Australia five days later, on the orders of the GOC AIF, General Birdwood, most probably due to the fact that his two brothers had been killed in action.