SCHUH, Roy Louis
| Service Number: | Q207570 |
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| Enlisted: | 17 April 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 10th (QLD) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) |
| Born: | Mount Morgan, Queensland, Australia, 18 July 1922 |
| Home Town: | Bundaberg, Bundaberg, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Bundaberg State High School, Queensland, Australia |
| Occupation: | Apprentice Electrical Engineer |
| Died: | Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia, 8 March 2014, aged 91 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Springfield Gardens Crematorium Elliott Heads, Queensland |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 17 Apr 1942: | Involvement Private, Q207570 | |
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| 17 Apr 1942: | Enlisted | |
| 17 Apr 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, Q207570, 10th (QLD) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) | |
| 26 Aug 1944: | Discharged | |
| 26 Aug 1944: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, Q207570, 10th (QLD) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Roy Louis Schuh (Service No:Q257075) served in the ACMF (17 April 1942 - 26 August 1944) with 10 Battalion (QLD) VDC. Older brother Kevin also served in the Army in WWII.
Roy was born in Mt Morgan QLD in 1923, youngest of three children of Louis Christopher Schuh (1894 in Rockhampton, QLD) and Charlotte (Lull) May Bayley (b1901 in Maryborough, QLD). Louis and Lull married in Maryborough in 1918, and lived in Mt Morgan and Bundaberg, where they raised their family and Louis worked as an Engine Driver.
Roy was an Apprentice Electrical Engineer with Fairymead Sugar Coy before serving with the ACMF. In 1944 Roy married Doreen (Dawn) Laura Donovan (b1923 in Springsure, QLD) in Bundaberg, where they settled and raised their family and Roy worked as an Electrical Engineer. Roy died in 2014 and Dawn in 2019.