Roy Rutherford KNEALE

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KNEALE, Roy Rutherford

Service Number:	5456
Enlisted:	1 February 1916, Adelaide, South Australia
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	10th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Port Wakefield, South Australia, 4 September 1891
Home Town:	Westbourne Park (Cottonville), Mitcham, South Australia
Schooling:	Inkerman Public School, South Australia
Occupation:	Farm labourer
Died:	Killed In Action, To Be Determined, Celtic Wood, Belgium, 3 October 1917, aged 26 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Menin Gate Memorial, Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium
Memorials:	Adelaide National War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Menin Gate Memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing of the Ypres Salient)

World War 1 Service

1 Feb 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Adelaide, South Australia
11 Apr 1916:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, SN 5456, 10th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres
11 Apr 1916:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, SN 5456, 10th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Aeneas, Adelaide
Date unknown:	Wounded SN 5456, 10th Infantry Battalion

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Biography

Cousin to:- 3714 Pte. James Little HARPER (/explore/people/252280) of 52nd Battalion Killed in action, 4 September 1916, and 3715 Pte. Robert Emslie HARPER (/explore/people/269732) also Killed in Action aged 23

Biography contributed by Robert Kearney

Private Roy Kneale had been slightly wounded on 1 October but rejoined the battalion on 5 October. He was one of the 88 men who took part in the Raid on Celtic Wood on the morning of 9 October, he was among those of the 10th Battalion listed as missing after the raid, a court of Enquiry later determined he was killed 3-9 October. See Red Cross Wounded and Missing file.

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