Military service
Service number:
2365
Age:
18
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Newfoundland Regiment
Death:
November 20, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of Edward and Mary Russell, of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.
Digital gallery of Private Melville Royston Russell
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Group Photo
Melville Royston (Roy) Russell on the left in his Royal Newfoundland Regiment uniform with his father, Edward Joseph, on the right in his Legion of Frontiersmen uniform. Circa 1916 Photo credit: Dale Russell FitzPatrick -
Group Photo
Melville 'Roy', shown 2nd from left in his Church Lads' Brigade uniform (before he attested), with his parents and siblings. His father served with the Legion of Frontiersmen in St. John's, his eldest brother in the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary in Newfoundland and his brother, John, also served in the Royal Newfoundland Regiment. Photo likely was taken January 1915 shortly before John (Reg. No 917) embarked for overseas. Photo credit: Dale Russell FitzPatrick -
Attestation paper
Roy's Attestation to Royal Newfoundland Regiment, Page 1. -
Attestation paper
Roy's Attestation paper to the Newfoundland Regiment, page 2 -
Honour roll
Melville Russell commemorated by the Church Lads' Brigade (CLB), an organization he was a member of before serving overseas, and where he learned to play the bugle. The CLB listing is from the Church Lads' Brigade Regimental Band's Website -
Beaumont-Hamel Memorial
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Entrance
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Inscription on Beaumont-Hamel Memorial
Digital gallery of
Private Melville Royston Russell
Digital gallery of
Private Melville Royston Russell
Digital gallery of
Private Melville Royston Russell
Digital gallery of
Private Melville Royston Russell
Digital gallery of
Private Melville Royston Russell
Digital gallery of
Private Melville Royston Russell
Digital gallery of
Private Melville Royston Russell
Digital gallery of
Private Melville Royston Russell
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 110 of the Newfoundland Book of Remembrance.
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