Private Roland William Austin

[rhubarbrebbie22]

Looking for war info on private Roland Wilkins Austin 6th battalion princess Charlotte of Wales Berkshire regiment. That's all I know and I believe he might have married and left a widow and children as family legend says he was black sheep for leaving young family to go off to fight

Many thanks for any help

[Birkbeck]

Name:   Roland William Austin
Birth Place:   Clewer, Bucks
Death Date:   31 Jul 1917
Death Place:   France and Flanders
Enlistment Place:   Windsor
Rank:   Private
Regiment:   Princess Charlotte of Wales's (Royal Berkshire) Regiment
Battalion:   6th Battalion
Regimental Number:   2746
Type of Casualty:   Killed in action
Theatre of War:   Western European Theatre

[ShaunJ]

He left a widow (Gertrude) and a child per the Registers of Soldiers' Effects.

[ShaunJ]

Per CWGC

"Son of William and Charlotte Austin, of 4, James Place, Ledgers Rd., Slough, Bucks.; husband of Gertrude M. B. Austin, of 6, Park Place, Spital, Windsor, Berks."


http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/925926/AUSTIN,%20ROLAND%20WILLIAM

[Birkbeck]

Gertrude Martha B Warner

Birth:  Abt 1883 - Surrey, England
Death:  Mar 1941 - Windsor, Berkshire, England
Marriage:  1905  - Eton, Buckinghamshire, England
Spouse:  Roland William Austin

[MaxD]

War diary here http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C7352988 - unlikely to mention him by name but it will give a flavour of what was going on when he lost his life.

maxD