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Sgt. Albert Roy Harbeck
Australian Imperial Force. A Coy, 4th platoon. 39th Btn.
from:Cunninghame, Gippsland
(d.1st May 1917)
Roy Harbeck was one of three brothers that served with the AIF.
He died of wounds sustained in a communication trench trying to get to the frontline trench near Prowse point at 04:30 on 1st May 1917, shrapnel to the face and neck. He died at the Charing Cross Dressing Station on the Messines Road near Hyde Park Corner. He is buried at Strand Military Cemetery, Ploegsteert, Belgium.
His brothers, Arthur Percival died of wounds and Rex Peter in Gallipoli (Second Krithia and the Nek).