Name: Roy Harry Greenwood
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Birth Date: 1897 |
Where: Ashburton, New Zealand |
Died: |
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Place of Enlistment: Brisbane |
Age: 18 |
Serial Number: 72 |
Battalion: 26th |
Rank on Enlistment: Private |
Rank on Discharge/Death: Lieutenant |
Awards: 1914 - 15 Star, British War Medal 1914 - 1920, Victory Medal,
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Service Details:
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9 June
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1915 Embarked Australia |
August
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1915 Embarked Egypt |
10 Sept. – 12 Dec.
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1915 Gallipoli |
21 March
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1916 France |
6/7 June
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1916 Trench Raid |
29 July – 27 Aug.
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1916 Pozieres (Sausage Valley) |
4 August
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1916 Pozieres |
6 September
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1916 Belgium |
October
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1916 Ypres and Dernacourt |
3 November
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1916 Battle of Ancres Heights & Fricourt |
February
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1917 Warlencourt |
25 February
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1917 Promoted Sergeant |
March
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1917 Attack on Malt Trench |
May
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1917 Battle of Bullecourt (Hindenburg Line) |
22 May
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1917 Promoted Coy QMS |
June
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1917 Bapaume |
12 June
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1917 #4 Officer Cadet School, Oxford |
22 September
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1917 Promoted 2nd Lieutenant |
October
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1917 Broodseine & Passchendale |
26 October
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1917 Battle of Passchendale (Ypres) |
December
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1917 Red Lodge |
15 January
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1918 Promoted Lieutenant |
7 April
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1918 Dernacourt |
20 April
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1918 Ville Sur-Ancre |
May
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1918 Morlancourt |
27 June
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1918 Villers-Bretonneux |
8 August
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1918 Battle of Amiens |
29 August
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1918 Somme |
2 Sept
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1918 Mont St. Quentin |
11 November
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1918 Armistice |
7 June
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1919mmmmmmmiiAppointment Terminated |
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Biographical Details:
Roy Harry Greenwood was the youngest of five children born to Cecil Danforth Greenwood and Annie Beatrice Jenkinson. He was born at Ashburton, New Zealand, in 1896, two years after his family had moved there from England. Roy’s mother died a month later and his father, a doctor, remarried in 1898. The Greenwoods moved to Queensland where Roy enlisted. Roy’s two older brothers enlisted with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Both were killed.
Unlike many of the Black ANZACs, Roy led a faultless life in the AIF but like many of them he was hospitalised on several occasions – the first time at Gallipoli when he suffered frost bite. He was returned to Heliopolis and eventually rejoined his unit in February after the 26th Battalion had returned to Egypt.
Soon after returning from special leave in London Roy was wounded and he was initially reported as having Died of Wounds. He returned to the field in time for the Battle at Pozieres where he was wounded again. He was wounded a third time late 1918 and was still recovering when the war ended.
During the Trench Raid Roy was a member of the Left Blocking Party. Their task made more hazardous when it was discovered that the communication trench they were assigned to block was little more than a thatch-screened track and therefore open to fire from the sides as well as ahead.
Roy quickly promoted through non-commissioned ranks and in 1917 was appointed the Company Quartermaster Sergeant (QMS). Soon after he was sent to a Cadet Training School at Oxford University and after graduating was appointed 2nd Lieutenant. He was made Lieutenant in 1918.
In October 1918 Roy received a GSW to his right elbow and forearm and was in England when Armistice was announced.
Roy was returned to Australia and discharged in Queensland in 1919. He met and married Helen Archdall in 1921 and at some stage moved to NSW where his father, step-mother and half-brother were then living. Roy and Helen had two children.
Roy Harry Greenwood died in 1970. His wife died in 1975.
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