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722 6th Battalion, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force
Robert Joy was born in Sudbury in 1871, the son of Robert Sizer and Ann Joy. He attended Sudbury Grammar School. His father Robert was a draper and upholsterer and had a shop on the Market Hill. He was a magistrate and Mayor of Sudbury in 1887 and 1888. At the age of 19 Robert was working as a draper’s assistant for his father and living with the family and some of his father’s employees ‘over the shop’ on Market Hill. Until recent years despite change of ownership the shop had retained the name ‘Joys’. Today it is the menswear department of Winch and Blatch.
It is not known when Robert emigrated to Australia. He enlisted on 14 August 1914 declaring himself as aged 38 (younger than he actually was) in Melbourne, Victoria. He joined the Melbourne Battalion of the Australian Infantry. In October 1914 30,000 Australian and New Zealand (ANZAC) troops left Albany, Western Australia bound for Britain but they were diverted to the Gallipoli.
On 24 April 1915 the men of the ANZAC force left Mudros harbor (the Allies base on the island of Lemnos) on board British ships for a planned attack on the Gallipoli Peninsular in the early hours of the next morning. Robert was killed in action on 25 April 1915 aged 44. He lies buried in Lone Pine Cemetery, Anzac. Turkey.
Robert is also remembered on the Australian National War Memorial, Canberra, Australia.
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