Private Royal Sharewood Mackey

Service number 2204
Birth Place Australia: New South Wales, Cooma
Death Date 1915-08-27
Death Place Egypt
Final Rank Private
Service Australian Imperial Force
Units
  • 4th Australian Infantry Battalion
  • 4th Australian Infantry Battalion
Places
Conflict/Operation First World War, 1914-1918
Description

Private Royal Sharewood (Sherwood) Mackey (2204, 4th Battalion) was a blacksmith from Cooma, NSW. He enlisted in April 1915. Roy received gunshot wounds to his chest at Lone Pine, Gallipoli, on 6 August 1915 and died of his wounds in Alexandria, Egypt, on 27 August 1915. He is buried in the Chatby Military and War Memorial Cemetery, Alexandria, Egypt. Roy’s father later wrote that he was 17 years 9 months and 16 days of age at the time of this death. Roy’s brother, Lance Corporal Robert Nancarrow Mackey, served with the 54th Battalion and was wounded during the Second Battle of Bullecourt.

Rolls

Timeline

Date of enlistment 28 April 1915
Date of embarkation 16 June 1915
Date of death 27 August 1915
Date of fate 27 August 1915