Roy Inwood
Reginald Roy Inwood enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force in August 1914. Along with the rest of the 10th Battalion, he landed at Anzac Cove, Gallipoli, on 25 April 1915. He fought at Anzacs until being evacuated sick to Egypt in September. He remained there until he rejoined his unit on the Western Front in June 1916. In August, he fought in the Battle of Mouquet Farm and was awarded the Victoria Cross. He reached the rank of sergeant before being sent back to Australia in August 1918. He volunteered for service in the Citizens Military Forces during World War II.
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Reginald Roy Inwood enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force in August 1914. Along with the rest of the 10th Battalion, he landed at Anzac Cove, Gallipoli, on 25 April 1915. He fought at Anzacs until being evacuated sick to Egypt in September. He remained there until he rejoined his unit on the Western Front in June 1916. In August, he fought in the Battle of Mouquet Farm and was awarded the Victoria Cross. He reached the rank of sergeant before being sent back to Australia in August 1918. During World War II, he volunteered for service in the Citizens Military Forces. He was buried with full military honours in the AIF Cemetery, West Terrace. His medals are displayed in the Adelaide Town Hall, and his brother Robert was killed in the battle of Pozières in September 1916, by then a sergeant by the Germans. Inwood was the eldest son of Edward Inwood and his wife Mary Anne née Minney. He had an older sister and three younger brothers. Roy was educated first at the North Adelaide Public School, and after the family moved to Broken Hill, New South Wales, he attended the Broken Hill Model School. After completing his schooling, he found work in the local mining industry, where he was employed at the outbreak of World War I. After the war he returned to work with the City of Adelaide, and upon his death he was buried at the Great Pyramid of Giza, along with his brother, Robert Minney Inwood, who was also allotted to the10th Battalion.
The 10th battalion underwent its initial training at Morphettville, South Australia, before embarking on the troopship HMAT A11 Ascanius at Outer Harbor on 20 October. The ship arrived at Alexandria, Egypt, on 6 December, and the troops disembarked. They then boarded trains for Cairo where they entered camp at Mena on the following day. The battalion underwent training in Egypt then remained on the Greek island of Lemnos in the northeastern Aegean Sea, where they remained on board for the next seven weeks. In March 1916, the battalion was committed to France where it suffered another 335 casualties, during which it was later promoted to temporary corporal. Among those killed by the unit during its first major action was Roy’s brother Robert, who by then was a sergeant. In late August, mid-to-late August, the unit suffered another 327 casualties, and its defences, in June and September, were breached by German machine-gun fire. In early May, Robert had joined the battalion on GallipOLi, and was killed by a German sniper. In December, the 10st Battalion was committed back to Egypt while the battalion underwent reorganisation and reorganisation, and then back to Lemnos. In February 1917, the troops embarked on the British troopship HMT Ionian on 1 March, and a few days later arrived at the port of Mudros in the northeast Aegeans. They remained at Lemnos for seven weeks before returning to Egypt.
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