MACBETH, Hedley Roy
| Service Number: | 4802 |
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| Enlisted: | 10 January 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 24th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Launceston, Tasmania, Australia, October 1885 |
| Home Town: | North Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Rubber worker |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Bullecourt II, France, 3 May 1917 |
| Cemetery: |
Queant Road Cemetery, Buissy, France Grave VIII. G. 27. INSCRIPTION LOVING HUSBAND OF BESSIE DADDIE OF MARY AND ROBERT HONOURED, LOVED AND MISSED BY HIS CLAN OUR HERO , Queant Road Cemetery, Buissy, Nord Pas de Calais, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 10 Jan 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4802, 24th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 4 Apr 1916: | Involvement Private, 4802, 24th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '14' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: '' | |
| 4 Apr 1916: | Embarked Private, 4802, 24th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Euripides, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
A burial ceremony was held at the CWGC’s Queant Road Cemetery, France at 2pm on Monday 12 November 2018 for Lance Corporal Rolls and Private MacBeth of the 24th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force.
Lance Corporal James Leonard Rolls and Private Hedley Roy MacBeth died together on 3 May 1917, killed by artillery fire while sheltering in a dugout on the side of a railway embankment during the Second Battle of Bullecourt.
Their bodies were recovered by CWGC staff in 2015 and identified by the Australian Army’s Unrecovered War Casualties team in June 2018. They were buried with full military honours .
Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
He was 31 and the son of the late John and Susannah MacBeth; husband of Bessie MacBeth, of 135 Melrose St., North Melbourne.
His burial has yet to take place, but is scheduled for Monday 12th November 2018.
He was previously commemorated as Missing on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial; his name will be removed when the appropriate panel is next replaced.
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