Roderick Robert BALSHAW

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BALSHAW, Roderick Robert

Service Number:	547
Enlisted:	26 September 1916, Bendigo
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	15th Machine Gun Company
Born:	Moulamein, New South Wales, 1895
Home Town:	Balranald, Balranald, New South Wales
Schooling:	State School
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Killed in Action, Ypres, Belgium, 25 September 1917
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Balranald War Memorial, Euston War Memorial, Menin Gate Memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing of the Ypres Salient), Swan Hill War Memorial

World War 1 Service

26 Sep 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 547, 2nd Machine Gun Company, Bendigo
6 Dec 1916:	Involvement Private, 547, 2nd Machine Gun Company, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '21' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Orsova embarkation_ship_number: A67 public_note: ''
6 Dec 1916:	Embarked Private, 547, 2nd Machine Gun Company, HMAT Orsova, Melbourne
25 Sep 1917:	Involvement Private, 547, 15th Machine Gun Company, Third Ypres, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 547 awm_unit: 15th Australian Machine Gun Company awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1917-09-25

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Biography contributed by Paul O'Bree

Private BALSHAW, RODERICK ROBERT
Service Number 547

Died 25/09/1917

Aged 21

15th Company, Australian Machine Gun Corps

Son of T. W. and Jane Ann Balshaw.

Native of New South Wales.

Biography contributed by Elizabeth Allen

Roderick Robert BALSHAW was born in 1895 at Moulamein, New South Wales

In his war record he stated he was born in Moulamein parish near Bendigo but his birth is recorded in NSW

His parents were Thomas Watkinson BALSHAW & Jane Ann BREMNER who married in NSW in 1882

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His brother Norman BALSHAW (SN 19776) also served in WW1 and Died of Wounds on 9th April, 1918

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