MUDGE, Roy Clarence
| Service Number: | 2689 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 51st Infantry Battalion (WW1) |
| Born: | Kew, Victoria, Australia, 20 January 1892 |
| Home Town: | Palmyra, Melville, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Cooper |
| Died: | Drowning, Bicton, Western Australia, Australia, 4 June 1947, aged 55 years |
| Cemetery: |
Fremantle Cemetery, Western Australia Anglican MON A7 0405 |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 10 Oct 1916: | Involvement Private, 2689, 51st Infantry Battalion (WW1), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '19' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Suffolk embarkation_ship_number: A23 public_note: '' | |
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| 10 Oct 1916: | Embarked Private, 2689, 51st Infantry Battalion (WW1), HMAT Suffolk, Fremantle |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
The West Australia
Friday 27 June 1947 page 18
DEATH BY DROWNING
The Acting-Coroner (Mr. J. E. Gustafson, J.P.) held an inquest in the Fremantle Court-house yesterday on the death of Roy Clarence Mudge (50), of Praser-street, Bicton whose body was found in the Swan niver near the Bicton Jetty on June 4. He found that Mudge met his death by drowning, but that there was no evidence to show how be came to be in the water. Sgt. M. W. McGeary assisted the Acting-Coroner. Evidence was given that Mudge had not been in good health for about two years. He was last seen alive by his wife
when they went to bed on June 3. When she awoke about 6.30 am. next day he was missing. Sgt. M. W. McGeary and Constables W.Balcombe and M. Yarrick began dragging in the river about 9.30
a.m., and at 11.15 a.m. the body was found in about 15ft. of water some 35 yards from the jetty.