COUTTS, Witcombe Roy
| Service Number: | 1682 |
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| Enlisted: | 4 August 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Lance Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | 57th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, 27 August 1886 |
| Home Town: | Ballarat, Central Highlands, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Grain broker |
| Died: | 1970, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 4 Aug 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1682, 57th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 4 Apr 1916: | Involvement Private, 1682, 57th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '20' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: '' | |
| 4 Apr 1916: | Embarked Private, 1682, 57th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Euripides, Melbourne | |
| 16 Mar 1917: | Discharged AIF WW1, Lance Sergeant, 1682, 57th Infantry Battalion, Discharged to the Royal Flying Corps with rank of 2nd Lieutenant |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Roy Whitcombe Coutts was born in Ballarat, Victoria and a grain broker by occupation, when he enlisted on the 4 of August 1915. He served with the 57th Battalion and rose to the rank of sergeant before he began flying training. Little is known of his service with the RFC except that it was noted in a newspaper that he had taken part in air operations during the Battle of Cambrai. Somehow, he ended as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 7th Bedford Infantry Regiment and during early 1918 was captured unwounded by the Germans and made prisoner. He was safely repatriated to England and he made application for War Leave Gratuity during December 1918.
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