Pemberton, Ray Torrens Michael

Gosford District Casualties of World War One Edmund Allen Pemberton,Bragg, Ray Torrens Michael

Service Service Number Number 1494 4506 Killed in Action 19th May 1915 Killed in Action 14th November 1916 Gallipoli Peninsula France

Gosford City Council gratefully acknowledges the voluntary efforts of Benalyn Campbell And Vivienne Tranter in compiling this resource

The information in this file has been extracted from official records held in the The Australian War Memorial and National Archives of Australia (ÂŠ Commonwealth of Australia [National Archives of Australia] 2013) Further information on this soldier may be found online at: Commonwealth War Graves The AIF project Content advisory: This file may potentially contain disturbing accounts of service-related injury and death, disease and family grief. Adult supervision is recommended for children using these resources. Individual files should be viewed within the context provided by wider research on service conditions in the 1 st AIF. This resource is presented by Gosford City Council for research purposes only. Please note that copyright for resources contained within remains with the original copyright owners.

NAME

Pemberton, Roy Torrens Michael

SERVICE NO

4506

UNIT

19th Battalion

RANK

Private

AGE at Enlistment

21 yrs 1 mth

PLACE OF BIRTH

Gosford, NSW

ADDRESS

27 Burfitt St. Leichhardt

OCCUPATION

Farmer

DATE OF ENLISTMENT

13 Dec 1915

PLACE OF ENLISTMENT

Casula, NSW

PREVIOUS SERVICE NEXT OF KIN

Father;- George Pemberton, West St., Five Dock (died) Mother, Margaret Pemberton, 2 Great Nth Rd., Five Dock.

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION

Height-5’5”. Weight-9 st 5 lbs. Chest-32-36”. Complexion-Fresh. Eyes-Brown. Hair-L. Brown.

RELIGION

R/C

EMBARKED DISEMBARKED NOTES WOUNDED/ILLNESS

4 Oct 1916-Mulitpule bomb wounds back- France, result of an accident Mille hand grenade going off in the trench

DIED

14 Nov 1916-

BURIED MEDALS

British War Medal-36456, Victory Medal-36177. Memorial Plaque & Scroll311179.

DEPENDANTS

Mother;-

PERSONAL EFFECTS

Belt, shaving brush/

Gosford Times 17th December 1915 Roy Pemberton a grandson of our PM, who has grown up amongst us, has enlisted and gone to camp. He has a cousin there already, and his uncle Percy, "one of the best, of former Creek boys," has been in Egypt with the A M C for the past six months. He joined in Western Australia, where he settled some 10 years ago.

Gosford Times 30th November 1916 There's a report going round that Syd Woodbury and Percy Davis have been invalided home, and will be back for Xmas. Good news for their home folk, if true. Roy Pemberton, who was wounded some weeks ago, is nearly alright again.

Gosford Times 8th February 1917 Particulars of poor Roy Pemberton's death have reached his people. His mate, writing, says "Roy and I had just taken shelter in a shell hole when a bullet struck my pal in the head and he was killed instantly."

Sydney Morning Herald 17th November 1917 pg. 11 PEMBERTON- In loving memory of Private Roy Pemberton, killed in action in France, November 14, 1916, aged 21 years O, God, grant us victory, That his young life was not given in vain. Inserted by his sincere friend, E M Woodbury

Abridged record/s courtesy of the National Archives of Australia (NAA) Series No: B2455 Item Barcode: 8014198

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