Roy Kyle was a typical Anzac, fiercely patriotic and prepared to give his life for King and Country. He couldn't wait to have a go and enlisted at seventeen, a year under age, and found himself in a trench at Lone Pine on his eighteenth birthday. The battle of Lone Pine, more than any other, established the legend of Gallipoli and was where a new nation was called upon to test its courage. 

 

One of the last to leave Gallipoli, Roy Kyle served in Egypt and later and the Somme where he was wounded in the head, arms and back.