HORSFIELD, Roy
| Service Number: | 2627 |
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| Enlisted: | 27 July 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Driver |
| Last Unit: | 1st Divisional Train |
| Born: | Islington, New South Wales, Australia, 17 January 1898 |
| Home Town: | Stockton, Newcastle, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Boilermaker |
| Died: | Pulmonary tuberculosis and cardiac dilation, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, New South Wales, Australia, 10 February 1922, aged 24 years |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW CATHOLIC 1-19. 52. |
| Memorials: | Stockton Morison & Bearby Ltd. Honour Roll, Stockton Soldiers Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 27 Jul 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2627, 19th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 2 Nov 1915: | Involvement Private, 2627, 19th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '13' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: '' | |
| 2 Nov 1915: | Embarked Private, 2627, 19th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Euripides, Sydney | |
| 14 Feb 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 4th Infantry Battalion | |
| 23 Sep 1918: | Transferred AIF WW1, Driver, 1st Divisional Train | |
| 29 Jul 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Driver, 2627, 1st Divisional Train, 2nd MD |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
On the Sunday afternoon of the 12th February 1922, Driver Royston V A Horsfield, 1st Australian Divisional Train (Reg No-2627), apprentice boilermaker (Morison & Bearby Limited) and soldier from Fullerton Street, Stockton, New South Wales, was laid to rest with a military funeral at Sandgate Cemetery, age 24. CATHOLIC 1-19. 52.
No death or funeral notice located.
Born at Islington, New South Wales on the 17th January 1898 to ? and Anne or Annie or Hannah O'Sullivan of Stockton Street, Stockton, N.S.W., Roy enlisted July 1915 with the 4th Battalion at Newcastle, N.S.W., returning home (invalided) June 1919.
Mr Horsfield’s name has been inscribed on the Stockton Soldiers' Memorial, Morison & Bearby Limited Roll of Honour (photo, unveiled on the 20th June 1917) and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall.
Roy died on the 10th February 1922 at the Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, N.S.W. of pulmonary tuberculosis and cardiac dilation.
An application for a Commonwealth War Graves Plaque to be placed at the New South Wales Garden of Remembrance, Rookwood Cemetery, Sydney, submitted March 2020, and was accepted April 2020, and this was completed August 2020.
Lest We Forget.
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