Roger Richard James Moloney

Service number: 651

Rank: Corporal

Unit: 2nd Battalion

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Source: National Archives of Australia

Roger Moloney was born at Bourke circa 1894. He was a marine engineer and lived at Pacific Street, Manly. He enlisted on 17 August 1914. His mother, Mrs Louisa Moloney, lived from c1916 at ‘Dardanelles’, Dale Street, Brookvale.

He embarked on 18 October 1914, and served with the 2nd Battalion at Gallipoli as a Driver. He was promoted to Corporal in 1918.

He returned to Australia on the Kaiser-i-Hind on 24 September 1918. He was discharged from service on 23 January 1919.

In January 1926 he was engineer on the coaster Tung Singwhen it sank in a collision with the Empress of Asianear Shanghai, barely escaping with the clothes he stood up in.

Latterly he lived at Lodge Street, Balgowlah.