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Roy Austin

Private

Australian Flying Corps

Killed In Action (KIA) Killed In Action

Medals Earned

  • British War Medal

Tree Information

  • Species: Populus simonii
  • Planted By: Miss D. Harris
  • Plaque: 3825

Additional Info

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Biography

Norman Roy Austin (SN 3784) was born at Albert Park but was working as an air mechanic at the Central Flying School, Laverton, when he enlisted as 20-year-old on September 10th 1918. Assigned to the Australian Flying Corps he embarked from Adelaide on October 22nd aboard the Boonah but became ill on the voyage at about the time the Armistice was being signed in France. He was taken ashore at Woodman’s Point, Fremantle, on December 11th and admitted to the Quarantine Station Hospital where he died of pneumonic influenza on December 26th 1918, aged 21. He was buried at the Woodman’s Point Cemetery.

Location in Ballarat Avenue of Honour