Keith Alwyn Garnet JOYNSON

JOYNSON, Keith Alwyn Garnet

Service Number: 3832
Enlisted: Not yet discovered
Last Rank: Corporal
Last Unit: 1st Infantry Battalion
Born: Nowra, New South Wales, Australia, September 1895
Home Town: Erskineville, City of Sydney, New South Wales
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Railway Workshop Fitter
Died: Killed in Action, Belgium, 17 September 1917
Cemetery: Tyne Cot Cemetery and Memorial
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket Loco Turning and Machine Shop Roll of Honor, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board, Nowra Soldiers Memorial
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World War 1 Service

30 Dec 1915: Involvement Private, 3832, 2nd Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Medic embarkation_ship_number: A7 public_note: ''
30 Dec 1915: Embarked Private, 3832, 2nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Medic, Sydney
25 Jul 1916: Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 3832, 1st Infantry Battalion, Gunshot wound to upper back. Evacuated to hospital in England.
17 Sep 1917: Involvement Corporal, 3832, 1st Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 3832 awm_unit: 1 Battalion awm_rank: Corporal awm_died_date: 1917-09-17

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Biography contributed by John Oakes

Keith JOYNSON (Service Number 3832) was born in about September 1895 in Nowra.  In 1911, he joined the NSW Government Railways as an apprentice fitter at the Eveleigh workshops.  When he enlisted in the AIF at Holdsworthy in September 1915, he gave his ‘trade or calling’ as ‘Engineer’ and stated that he had two years’ experience with the Engineers in the Militia.

He was llotted to the 12th Reinforcements of the 2nd Battalion. He was embarked from Sydney aboard HMAT ‘Medic’ in December 1915, and sent via Egypt to France, landing there in April 1916.  He spent three weeks in hospital with mumps, then a week on base duties, before being transferred to the 1st Battalion and ‘taken on strength’ by them on 3rd June. 

On 25th July he suffered a gunshot wound in the upper back and was evacuated to hospital in England.  He was discharged from hospital and reported back from leave in September. He was classed as fully fit. A week later he was sent back to France.  He spent a week with the 53rd Battalion before returning to the 1st Battalion at the end of November 1916.  In May 1917 he was appointed Lance Corporal. Later that month he had two weeks in a rest camp. 

On 17thSeptember 1917 he was killed in action instantaneously by a near direct hit from an artillery shell.  Originally buried at a map reference at Passchendaele, his remains were later exhumed and re-interred in the Tyne Cot British Cemetery, Passchendaele, 5¼ miles ENE of Ypres.

- based on the Australian War Memorial Honour Roll and notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board.

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