DYE, Valentine Victor
| Service Number: | 4179 |
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| Enlisted: | 27 July 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 1st Pioneer Battalion |
| Born: | Coleraine, Victoria, Australia, 1897 |
| Home Town: | Heywood, Glenelg, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 25 July 1916 |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Heywood St. John's Anglican Church Great War Honor Roll, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France), Wallacedale WW1 Honour Roll |
World War 1 Service
| 27 Jul 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4179, 5th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 29 Dec 1915: | Involvement Private, 4179, 5th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Demosthenes embarkation_ship_number: A64 public_note: '' | |
| 29 Dec 1915: | Embarked Private, 4179, 5th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Demosthenes, Melbourne | |
| 25 Jul 1916: | Involvement Private, 4179, 1st Pioneer Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 4179 awm_unit: 1st Australian Pioneer Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1916-07-25 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Valentine Victor Dye and his brother Walter Stanley Dye lived at Heywood Victoria in 1915. It was a small town about 30 kilometres north of Portland. Valentine was the youngest of 11 children at 18 years of age and his brother Walter was the next oldest at 21.
Their mother passed away suddenly on the 30 July 1915, at 57 years, and the two boys enlisted in the AIF before a month was up. Their father signed a permission note for the two boys to enlist.
Their young lives were ended at Pozieres, a little less than 12 months later, tragically both were killed in action in the same French village, on the same day, 25 July 1916. Although not serving in the same units, they were both blown away by the heavy shellfire, probably within a few hundred yards of each other. They have no known graves and their father and siblings would have had to deal with the double tragedy at the same time.
One of their older sisters Lily had also married a Heywood bullock driver, Henry Hayward Aldridge, who had also left home to go and fight. Lily was raising four children under the age of six when she lost her two brothers. Her husband Henry never returned to comfort her; he too was killed in action in France on the 12 April 1918.
The Dye brothers are remembered on the Heywood War Memorial.
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