BAIN, Roy
| Service Number: | NX131932 |
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| Enlisted: | 27 August 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/9th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Yerong Creek, New South Wales, Australia, 5 August 1917 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Papua , 20 December 1942, aged 25 years |
| Cemetery: |
Port Moresby (Bomana) War Cemetery, Papua New Guinea Plot B7.A.12, Port Moresby (Bomana) War Cemetery, Bomana, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 2 Service
| 3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Private, NX131932 | |
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| 27 Aug 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NX131932, 2nd/9th Infantry Battalion | |
| 20 Dec 1942: | Wounded NX131932, Kokoda - Papua, Roy (known as Russell) arrived in Buna on 7 December 1942 and was killed in action on 20 December 1942. |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Lee McKerracher
Roy (known to all as Russell) was born in Yerong Creek, a small town in the Riverina area of NSW. It's still a small town now with a population of 173 as at the 2016 Census.
His parents were Frederick Albert Bain and Hilda Ruby Bain (nee Jansen) and he soon had a baby sister, Mavis to look after when she was born in 1921.
Russell was living in Wollongong NSW when he enlisted on 17 December 1938 but it was a while before he was deployed.
In the interim he moved to Liverpool on the outskirts of Sydney and married Irene Thorn in 1941. Russell was known as a hard worker dedicated to his family and especially to his sister.
When he was called to military action in 1942 he was sent to Papua New Guinea and arrived in Buna on 7 December. Buna is in Oro Province and was the trailhead to the Kokoda Track. It was captured by the Japanese on 21 - 22 July 1942 and re-captured by Australian / US forces in 1943.
Sadly Russell did not see that victory as he was killed in action on 20 December 1942.
The devastation for his family back home was only just starting to ease when his sister, Mavis collapsed at her workplace, Cablemakers and was rushed to hospital. She died at St Joseph's Hospital in Auburn in January 1944 thus Hilda, who had separated from her husband and was in another relationship, lost both of her children just over one year apart.