Rollo Neville BRAY

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BRAY, Rollo Neville

Service Number:	7018
Enlisted:	18 June 1917, Sydney, NSW
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	19th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Williamstown, Melbourne Victoria, 18 July 1881
Home Town:	Neutral Bay, North Sydney, New South Wales
Schooling:	Melbourne Grammar School, Sydney Church of England Grammar School
Occupation:	Bank Clerk
Died:	Killed in Action, France, 3 October 1918, aged 37 years
Cemetery:	Estrees Communal Cemetery Row 5, Grave 11 Headstone Inscription "VITAI LAMPADA TRADVNT", Estrees Communal Cemetery, Estrees, Picardie, France
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Melbourne Grammar School WW1 Fallen Honour Roll, Northbridge (Shore) Sydney Church of England Grammar School Memorial Cricket Ground Roll of Honour

World War 1 Service

18 Jun 1917:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 7018, 19th Infantry Battalion, Sydney, NSW
28 Feb 1918:	Involvement Private, 7018, 19th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '13' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Nestor embarkation_ship_number: A71 public_note: ''
28 Feb 1918:	Embarked Private, 7018, 19th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Nestor, Melbourne

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Biography contributed by Daryl Jones

Son of William Charles and Mary Helen Inglis BRAY; husband of Irene BRAY, of "Alcot", Florence Street, Strathfield, New South Wales.

Rollo Neville Bray who was killed in action in France on 3rd October 1918 was the son of Mr. W.C. Bray. He was born in 1881 and entered the School in 1896. He left in 1897 for the North Shore Grammar School, Sydney, and then went into the service of the London Bank of Aust. Ltd. He was a distinguished oarsman, being in the N.S.W. Interstate Crewes of 1904, 1905, 1906 and 1909, stroking that of 1906. He was also a member of the N.S.W Interstate Hockey Team. He enlisted in August 1917, and embarked as a Private in 19th Battalion in February 1918, arriving in France in July. He took part in the big Australian attack of 8th August 1918, the attack on Mont St. Quentin, and thereafter in the operations against the Hindenberg line. At Beaurevoir on 3rd October he was killed while in charge of a Lewis gun.

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