SUTHERLAND, Roy Buchanan

  1. Service Details
  2. Personal Details
  3. Unit and Rank Details
  4. Notes
  5. Sources

Service Details

Branch of Service
Army
Conflict
World War I (1914-1918)
Date of Enlistment
01/01/1918
Date of Discharge
03/02/1920
Place of Enlistment
Royal Military College, Duntroon ACT

Personal Details

Gender
Male
Date of Birth
24/10/1897
Place of Birth
Murrumbeena, Victoria
Address (at enlistment)
Royal Military College, Duntroon ACT
School(s) Attended
Melbourne High School
Occupation
Soldier
Next of Kin
Isaac Sutherland (father), Murrumbeena, Victoria

Unit and Rank Details

Final Rank
Lieutenant
Final Unit
4 Field Company Engineers AIF

Notes

Sutherland entered the Royal Military College, Duntroon in February 1915 and graduated at the end of 1917 when he was commissioned as a Lieutenant in a Special Draft of RMC graduates which arrived in England in April 1918. He joined the 4th Field Company Engineers in France in September 1918 and by the beginning of 1919 he was attached to the 4th Division Headquarters. Sutherland continued to serve in the army but died in an aircraft accident while on active service in New Guinea on 28 September 1943, aged 45 years. At first he was buried at Soputa War Cemetery with full military honours, but he was later interred at Bomana War Cemetery near Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.

Description - height 5 feet 8½ inches, weight 160 pounds, chest 36 inches, fair complexion, blue eyes, dark hair, Presbyterian.

Sources

Colonel J.E. Lee, 'Duntroon: The Royal Military College of Australia 1911-1946', 1952
NAA RecordSearch - Series B883 (Second Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1939-1947)
Argus (Melbourne) - 4 October 1943

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