Service Details
- Branch of Service
- Army
- Conflict
- World War I (1914-1918)
- Date of Enlistment
- 13/10/1916
- Date of Discharge
- 24/11/1917
- Place of Enlistment
- Sydney Showgrounds NSW
Personal Details
- Gender
- Male
- Place of Birth
- Queanbeyan NSW
- Address (at enlistment)
- Leichhardt NSW (previously Tharwa ACT)
- Occupation
- Blacksmith
- Next of Kin
- Sidney Bambury (father), Leichhardt NSW
Unit and Rank Details
- Service Number
- 16517
- Final Rank
- Sapper
- Final Unit
- 1 Field Company Engineers AIF
Notes
Roland Bambury was born in the Queanbeyan area in 1893, the brother of Alwyn and Horace Bambury. His parents ran the post office at Tharwa in the 1890s and the punt across the Murrumbidgee River first at Tharwa and then at Uriarra. He was a blacksmith living in Sydney when he enlisted in October 1916 and served as a Sapper with the 1st and 2nd Field Company Engineers. He arrived in France in May 1917 but was hospitalised a few weeks later with syncope and repatriated to Australia where he was discharged in November 1917. Bambury died in Burwood in Sydney on 2 June 1971.
Description - height 5 feet 4 inches, weight 122 pounds, chest 31-34 inches, dark complexion, blue eyes, dark brown hair, Church of England, numerous small moles and a scar on his right knee.
Sources
NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920)
Bruce Moore, 'Cotter Country', 1999
Monaro Pioneers Index - http://www.monaropioneers.com/pioneers.htm