| Service Number: | 544 |
|---|---|
| Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Age: | 20 |
| Religion: | Pres |
| Marriage status: | Single |
| Calling/trade: | Bank Clerk |
| Address: |
79 Prospect Hill-road Camberwell Victoria Australia |
| Date joined: | 17/08/14 |
| *A.M.F. Unit: | 48th Infantry |
| Regiment: | 5th Infantry Battalion |
Embarkation |
|
| Date: | 21/10/14 |
| From: | Melbourne |
| On number: | A3 |
| Name: | Orvieto |
| Nominal Roll No: | 23/22/1 |
| Division | F Company |
Next of Kin |
|
| Name: | J. T. Piercey |
| Relationship: | Father |
| Address: | Camberwell Victoria Australia |
| Before Embarkation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Rate per Diem | Date to which paid | ||
| S | D | S | D |
| 5 | 0 | 20/10/14 | |
| After Embarkation | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daily rate, excluding Deferred pay | Allotment in Australia per Diem | Not Rate, not including Allowances or Deferred pay | |||
| S | D | S | D | S | D |
| 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Daily Rate of Deferred Pay, only Inssuable on Completion of Service with Expeditionary Force | |
|---|---|
| S | D |
| 1 | 0 |
Sue Carroll shares her family connection to World War I. Roy Lyndon Piercey, a cousin of my Grandmother, enlisted as a private in the 5th Battalion and boarded the Orvieto on 21 August 1914. Roy was guard to Prince Franz Joseph Hohenzollern, the Kaiser’s nephew, from the captured German cruiser Emden. Roy fought at Gallipoli [...]
