CARR-BOYD, William Henry
| Service Number: | 3282 |
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| Enlisted: | 27 June 1916, Rockhampton, Queensland |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 41st Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Ipswich, Queensland, 4 July 1878 |
| Home Town: | Rockhampton, Rockhampton, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Clerk |
| Died: | Natural causes, Hollywood Repatriation Hospital, Perth, Western Australia, 14 June 1947, aged 68 years |
| Cemetery: |
Perth War Cemetery and Annex, Western Australia Row AA, Grave No. 28 |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 27 Jun 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3282, Rockhampton, Queensland | |
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| 14 Jun 1917: | Involvement Private, 3282, 42nd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '18' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Hororata embarkation_ship_number: A20 public_note: '' | |
| 14 Jun 1917: | Embarked Private, 3282, 42nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Hororata, Sydney | |
| 30 Jun 1918: | Promoted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 42nd Infantry Battalion | |
| 14 Oct 1918: | Transferred AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 41st Infantry Battalion | |
| 11 Sep 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 3282, 41st Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Sharyn Roberts
'LANCE-CORPORAL W. H. CARR-BOYD.
Lance-corporal W. H. Carr-Boyd, writing from France to a friend in Rockhampton, says :—
"The month of March was still going well when our brigade of the Australian Imperial Forces was resting after being twenty-one days in the Ypres sector, holding the Germans at bay. Our brigade consisted of four battalions, mine and the number preceding it being Queenslanders, the next number South Australian, and the following number Western Australian.
For the purpose of complying with the censor's wishes. I will call my battalion B, the one preceding it A, the one following mine C, and the Western Australian D. The battalions were carrying out a Brigade competition in which the keenest rivalry existed. The bout was for platoons, and finally this bout narrowed itself down to three platoons
from B (mine) battalion and one from A, the other two battalions (C and D) failing to get a place in the final shoot-off. I was in fifteen platoon led by our platoon conmander, Lieutenant A. C. Dibdin, of Rockhampton. In this platoon were also Bill Lovering and Archie Rowbottom of Rockhampton, and Harry Reiman, of Yeppoon. Jack Grant Pattison was also in it.' READ MORE (nla.gov.au)