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Private Reginald Roy Inwood

Unit: 10th Battalion, 3rd Brigade, 1st Division
Action: 20-21 September 1917, Polygon Wood, east of Ypres, Belgium
Inwood, 27, single-handedly attacked an enemy strong post.

The citation says: ``(He) captured it, together with nine prisoners, killing several of the enemy. During the evening he volunteered for a special all night patrol, which went out (550m) in front of our line, and there -- by his coolness and sound judgment -- obtained and sent back very valuable information as to the enemy's movements.

"In the early morning of the 21st September, Private Inwood located a machine-gun which was causing several casualties. He went out alone and bombed the gun and team, killing all but one, whom he brought in as a prisoner with the gun.''

Biography: Inwood was one of three brothers from the Broken Hill family of miners who served with the AIF -- Robert was killed at Pozieres in 1916 while Harold was wounded and shipped home in 1917.
Inwood was born on 14 July 1890 and enlisted on 24 August 1914. He was appointed lance-corporal while serving at Gallipoli but was demoted to private the following year for being absent without leave.
After the VC action, he was promoted again and had reached the rank of sergeant by the time he left the battalion on 30 May 1918. He returned to a heroes welcome in Broken Hill, moved to Adelaide and was married within six months and divorced three years later.
In 1927 he married again, and then as a widower with no children, married a third time in 1942.
He worked as an attendant at the Adelaide City Council until he retired in 1955. He died on 23 October 1971 and is buried in the West Terrace Cemetery, Adelaide.