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BISHOP, Roy
| Service Number: | 3690 |
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| Enlisted: | 10 August 1915, Adelaide, SA |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 10th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Mount Gambier, South Australia, Australia, 29 June 1896 |
| Home Town: | Mount Gambier, Mount Gambier, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Mount Gambier High School, South Australia |
| Occupation: | Chemist Assistant |
| Died: | 30 June 1988, aged 92 years, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Centennial Park Cemetery, South Australia General E/Path 14/76A |
| Memorials: | Mount Gambier High School Great War Roll of Honor |
World War 1 Service
| 10 Aug 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3690, 10th Infantry Battalion, Adelaide, SA | |
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| 2 Dec 1915: | Involvement Private, 3690, 10th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: RMS Malwa embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
| 2 Dec 1915: | Embarked Private, 3690, 10th Infantry Battalion, RMS Malwa, Adelaide | |
| 11 Nov 1918: | Involvement Corporal, 3690, 10th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Graeme Roulstone
3690 Roy BISHOP was born at Mount Gambier on 29 June 1896. He was enrolled at Mount Gambier High School on 9 October 1908 by his father, Thomas Bishop, a saddler, of Grey Street, Mount Gambier. He left the school on 31 March 1910. Before enlisting he worked at Glover’s Chemists in Commercial Street, Mount Gambier. He was given a farewell by friends at the Temperance Hall before leaving to enlist.
He enlisted in Adelaide on 10 August 1915 (19, assistant chemist, single, Church of England) naming his mother Mrs Sophy Bishop of Grey Street, Mount Gambier, as his next of kin. He embarked from Adelaide on the ‘Malwa’ on 2 December 1915, arriving in Egypt a month later. He embarked at Alexandria in Egypt on the ‘Saxonia’ on 27 March 1916, disembarked at Marseilles in France on 3 April, joined the 10th Battalion on 12 June and was in action at Pozieres in July. He was promoted to the rank of Lance Corporal on 9 May 1917 and granted leave to England in August 1917, returning to his unit in early September. His subsequent service was punctuated with a series of hospitalisations, and a further promotion to Corporal on 2 January 1918, another round of leave to England in March, and in May he was evacuated to England suffering from trench fever. He left England on the ‘Demosthenes’ for return to Australia on 16 January 1919, disembarked on 28 February, and arrived back in Mount Gambier by train with several other servicemen on Wednesday 5 March 1919. Here he and his fellow soldiers were met by the band and transported by motor vehicles provided by the South-Eastern Motorists’ Association to the Town Hall where they were greeted by an official party that included the Mayor G.E Truman and Colonel Daniel representing the Cheer Up Society. He was discharged on 11 May.
Published in Ours: the origins and early years of Mount Gambier High School and Old Scholars who served in the Great European War by Graeme Roulstone
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