Rohan Albert Tapfield

Rank: Gunner

Unit: 1 Brigade Australian Field Artillery

Service: Australian Army

Date of death: 16 August 1917

Cause of death: Died of wounds

Cemetery or memorial details: Perth Cemetery (China Wall), Belgium

War Grave Register notes:

TAPFIELD, Gnr. Rohan Albert, 9991. 1st Bde. Australian Field Artillery. Died of wounds 16th August 1917. Age 32. Son of Mowbray Lawson Tapfield and Susan Elizabeth Tapfield; husband of Rosa Madeline Tapfield, of Sylvander, 89 Darley Road, Manly, New South Wales. Born at Hobart, Tasmania. II. D. 32.

Source: AWM145 Roll of Honour cards, 1914-1918 War, Army

Rohan Tapfield was born at Clarence, near Hobart in 1885. He was a typewriter salesman to trade, and lived at Crown Road, Queenscliff prior to enlisting. He married Rosa Chalmers on 28 March 1905.1 He was a member of the Order of Royal Foresters, and a member of Freshwater SLSC.

He enlisted in October 1915 and arrived in Cairo on 24 January 1916. He arrived in France on 2 April 1916. He served as a gunner with the 1st Field Artillery. From January-April 1917 he was invalided out with laryngitis and bronchitis. He died of wounds on 16 August 1917, near Ypres. 1Hobart Mercury 29 May 1905, p1.