Rank: 
Corporal
Service number: 
4208
Unit: 
27th Infantry Battalion
Location: 
2 Australian General Hospital, Boulogne-sur-Mer, France
Buire-sur-l'Ancre, France
Franvillers, France
Heilly, France
Morlancourt, France
Wimereux, France
Date of Death: 
21 May 1918
Enquirer: 
John Gilbert Allan Shawyer
Eyewitness Reports: 
Harry Andrew Richards
Keith Raymond Crewes
Eric Malcolm Forbes
James Augustus Maloney
Rex Gammell
E Williams
Lloyd Hayes Burgess
William Charles Henry Buggins
Additional soldiers: 
Peter Ferns MacDonald
Clifford Waugh
Frederick Charles Lindner
Packet number: 
4334
Date range: 
1917-1918
SLSA record number: 
SRG 76/1/4334
Grave of Roland Allan Shawyer
Grave of Roland Allan Shawyer | Source: https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C1664
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