WWI Stories – Roy Lyndon Piercey
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 […]