Arthur William BRIGHT MM

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BRIGHT, Arthur William

Service Number:	348
Enlisted:	1 June 1915
Last Rank:	Sergeant
Last Unit:	36th Heavy Artillery Brigade
Born:	Parsonstown, Tipperary, Ireland, 27 November 1883
Home Town:	Fremantle, Fremantle, Western Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Soldier
Died:	Fremantle, Western Australia, 1 October 1952, aged 68 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Fremantle Cemetery, Western Australia MCB-61737-W5K7P5
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World War 1 Service

1 Jun 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Gunner, 348, Siege Artillery Brigade
17 Jul 1915:	Involvement Gunner, 348, Siege Artillery Brigade, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '4' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Orsova embarkation_ship_number: A67 public_note: ''
17 Jul 1915:	Embarked Gunner, 348, Siege Artillery Brigade, HMAT Orsova, Melbourne
27 Jun 1916:	Promoted AIF WW1, Bombardier, 56th Australian Field Artillery Battery
25 Sep 1917:	Honoured Military Medal
14 Oct 1917:	Promoted AIF WW1, Corporal, 56th Australian Field Artillery Battery
14 Jan 1918:	Transferred AIF WW1, Corporal, 36th Heavy Artillery Brigade
3 Apr 1918:	Promoted AIF WW1, Sergeant, 36th Heavy Artillery Brigade
1 Jun 1919:	Embarked AIF WW1, Sergeant, 348, 36th Heavy Artillery Brigade, per HT 'Somali' for Perth
6 Sep 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Sergeant, 348, 36th Heavy Artillery Brigade

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Sergeant Arthur William Bright MM (Service No:348) enlisted in the AIF on 1 June 1915 as a Gunner attached to Siege Artillery Brigade. He embarked from Melbourne on board HMAT Orsova A67 and served in France with 56th Field Artlllery Brigade and 36th Brigade Heavy Artillery Group. Sergeant Bright was awarded the Military Medal on 25 September 1917 and the French Medaille Militaire on 8 July 1919. He returned to Australia on board HT Somali and was Discharged on 6 September 1919.

Born in 1883 in County Tipperary in Ireland, Arthur was the second of six children of Arthur Bright and Bridget Waters who married in 1880 in County Offaly, Ireland.

Arthur had enlisted in the British Army by the age of seventeen in 1901 and was a Private in the Infantry at Beresford Barracks in Kildare Ireland, and by 1911 was a Lance Corporal in India.

By 1915 Arthur was in Fremantle WA attached to the Royal Australian Garrison Artillery at Fremantle Barracks. On his return from WWI in 1919, Arthur married Myrtle Annie Hicks (b1887 in Fremantle WA). Arthur remained in the Army as a career Soldier and died in 1952. Myrtle died in 1969.

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