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Sgt John Roy DCM, MM
British Army 250th Tunnelling Company Royal Engineers.
from:Windygates, Fife, Scotland
John Roy was my Great Grandfather. A miner to trade, he arrived in France in 1915 at the age of 41. He served with the 250th Tunneling Company for the duration of the war. He was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal and the Military Medal during this time.
Extract from the London Gazette, 2nd February 1919
"121813 Sjt. J. Roy, 250th Tunneling Coy., R.E.
For the last three years he has shown consistent gallantry and devotion to duty during a long period of active mine warfare, when employed on the erection of concrete pill-boxes and in the search for enemy-land contact mines. On 25th June, 1918, he, with six sappers, loaded and transported over 30 tons of concrete to a required site and unloaded. During this operation the party was subjected to particularly severe machine gun fire. It was entirely due to his personal example and determination that the emplacement was erected in time."