Roger Guilford NORTH

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NORTH, Roger Guilford

Service Number:	1555
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Sergeant
Last Unit:	25th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 22 May 1889
Home Town:	Rockhampton, Rockhampton, Queensland
Schooling:	Brisbane Grammar School, Queensland, Australia
Occupation:	Assistant surveyor
Died:	Killed in Action, Pozieres, France, 29 July 1916, aged 27 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Gracemere Roll of Honour, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France)

World War 1 Service

29 Jun 1915:	Involvement Private, 1555, 25th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '15' embarkation_place: Brisbane embarkation_ship: HMAT Aeneas embarkation_ship_number: A60 public_note: ''
29 Jun 1915:	Embarked Private, 1555, 25th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Aeneas, Brisbane
29 Jul 1916:	Involvement Sergeant, 1555, 25th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 1555 awm_unit: 25 Battalion awm_rank: Sergeant awm_died_date: 1916-07-29

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Biography contributed by Stephen Brooks

Roger North was the eldest of 9 children in the North family. He was employed on the Commonwealth survey staff when he enlisted early in 1915. He was about three months in Gallipoli, where he was promoted to the rank of Lance-Corporal and later in the same campaign to Corporal. It was while fighting in France that he received his next promotion to Sergeant.

North was killed in action on 29 July 1916, and his parents, Francis Jeremy and Fanny Lizzie North, of Stanmore, Rockhampton, Queensland, were advised of the death, not received through official sources, but from their other son, Private Cedric Arnold North. Cedric, a member of the same battalion, stated in a letter received by the parents, 2 months after the event, that his brother was killed by machine gun fire while assaulting a trench at Pozieres, being shot in the stomach and the chest.

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