Roy Vernon BAWDEN

Badge Number: S65725, Sub Branch: State
S65725

BAWDEN, Roy Vernon

Service Number: 8483
Enlisted: 30 August 1915, Enlisted at Adelaide
Last Rank: Driver
Last Unit: Field Artillery Brigades
Born: Prospect, South Australia, 26 March 1894
Home Town: Prospect, Prospect, South Australia
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Engineering
Died: Adelaide, South Australia, 24 April 1957, aged 63 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery: Enfield Memorial Park, South Australia
General Section, Row T, Site 83. Grant expired on 26 April 2007. His wife Sadie was also interred at the same site
Memorials: Adelaide High School Honour Board, Prospect Roll of Honour A-G WWI Board
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World War 1 Service

30 Aug 1915: Enlisted AIF WW1, Driver, 8483, Field Artillery Brigades, Enlisted at Adelaide
22 Nov 1915: Involvement Driver, 8483, 6th Field Artillery Brigade , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '4' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Persic embarkation_ship_number: A34 public_note: ''
22 Nov 1915: Embarked Driver, 8483, 6th Field Artillery Brigade , HMAT Persic, Melbourne
11 Nov 1918: Involvement Driver, 8483
27 Jun 1919: Discharged AIF WW1, Driver, 8483, Field Artillery Brigades, Discharged at Adelaide

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Biography contributed by Carol Foster

Son of Charles and Elizabeth Ann (nee Vine) Bawden of Propsect Road, Prospect, SA; brother of Arthur Baawden who returned to Australia on 27 April 1919 having served with the 6th Field Artillery Brigade, Annie Bawden, Henry Hugh Bawden, Frederick Charles Bawden, Edith Annie Bawden, Elizabeth Mary Bawden, Ethell Bawden, Elsie Maud Bawden, Ernest Bawden, Wilfred Alfred Bawden, Bertha Bawden, Eva Bawden, Hilda Bawden, Ida Bawden and Doris Bawden

18 January 1919 - commenced return to Australia on board HT Ulysses disembarking in Adelaide on 9 March 1919

Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

On 17 December 1921 Roy married Sadie Kathleen McCormack in the reseidence of the Archbisop of Adelaide. Father of Patricia Norma Bawden and Rhonda

At the time of his death he was residing at Blair Athol

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