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Town Hall, 333 Bay Street, Port Melbourne

Arnold, Alfred (1467)

Place of Birth: Port Melbourne, VIC

Age: 39 years 11 months

Enlistment Details: Thursday, 8 July 1915 – Melbourne, VIC

Service Number: 1467            view online service record

Address:
1 Nicholson Terrace, Nicholson Street
East Brunswick, VIC

Next of Kin:
Margaret Arnold (wife)
1 Nicholson Terrace, Nicholson Street
East Brunswick, VIC

Embarkation Details:
Date: Tuesday, 23 November 1915
Ship: HMAT Ceramic A40
Port: Melbourne, VIC
Unit: 9th Light Horse Regiment – 12th Reinforcements

Fate:
KIA: Sunday, 7 October 1917
Place: Belgium


Driver, 4 Field Artillery, killed in action, 7 October, 1917, Belgium, aged 40, commemorated Birr Cross Roads Cemetery, Flanders, Belgium.

Parents: William and Elizabeth ARNOLD, wife Mrs Margaret ARNOLD, born Port Melbourne. He enlisted at 39 years of age, a labourer with his wife in Nicholson Street, East Brunswick. Directories around the time he was born suggest his father was a fishmonger in Bay Street.

Additional research by Brian Membrey

1 Comments

  • Brian Membrey
    Posted October 11, 2016 11.45 am 0Likes

    “Driver A. Arnold of 11th Batty (previously with L.H) was killed on the Corduroy Track going to Westlock Ridge while on a 8 horse team. The lead driver “Hobby” Henderson and another driver were also killed outright by two shells which also killed the team and I hear a fourth driver died of wounds … (Robinson, Dr. G. 11th Batty.) (Victorian BDM reveals a second given name of Henry)

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