Arnold Henry Jefferson STORER MM

Badge Number: S654, Sub Branch: Westbourne Park
S654

STORER, Arnold Henry Jefferson

Service Numbers: 8444, S70328
Enlisted: 18 September 1915, 18th Battery
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 3rd (SA) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC)
Born: Goodwood Park, SA, 6 February 1890
Home Town: Torrens Park, Mitcham, South Australia
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Telephone Mechanic
Died: Natural Causes, Adelaide, South Australia, 8 April 1966, aged 76 years
Cemetery: Centennial Park Cemetery, South Australia
South East, Individual Rose Bed SG2, Position 024
Memorials: Adelaide Officers of S.A. Post, Telegraph and Telephone Department HR, Glenelg and District WW1 & WW2 Honour Board, Postmaster General's Department Adelaide, Unley Museum Honour Board, Unley Town Hall WW1 Honour Board
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World War 1 Service

18 Sep 1915: Enlisted AIF WW1, Driver, 8444, 6th Field Artillery Brigade , 18th Battery
22 Nov 1915: Embarked AIF WW1, Driver, 8444, 6th Field Artillery Brigade , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '4' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Persic embarkation_ship_number: A34 public_note: ''
23 Jul 1916: Involvement AIF WW1, Driver, 8444, 6th Field Artillery Brigade , Battle for Pozières
27 Jul 1917: Honoured Military Medal, Third Ypres, Part of the 5th Army, the 6th Field Artillery Brigade's 18th Battery, gun position was hit by enemy artillery fire and a fire ensued. Gunner Storer and a number of other men acted without fear of their own lives to extinguish the fire such that only a small number of rounds of their own ammunition were lost. All guns in the Battery were damaged by shell splinters. However the Battery was back in action the following day thanks largely to the actions of the men involved in fighting the fire.
10 Nov 1917: Wounded AIF WW1, Gunner, 8444, 6th Field Artillery Brigade , 2nd Passchendaele , Shrapnel Wounds to Thigh leg and Abdomen Evacuated to UK & hospital in Harefield
24 Jan 1918: Embarked AIF WW1, Gunner, 8444, 6th Field Artillery Brigade , Embarked HMAT for Return to Australia (Wounded) Transferred to HMAT Karoola Capetown. Disembarked Adelaide 10 March 1918
9 Sep 1918: Discharged AIF WW1, Gunner, 8444, 6th Field Artillery Brigade , Keswick Barracks Adelaide

World War 2 Service

10 Apr 1942: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, S70328
10 Apr 1942: Enlisted Private, S70328, 3rd (SA) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC), Adelaide, SA
11 Apr 1942: Involvement Private, S70328, 3rd (SA) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC), Homeland Defence - Militia and non deployed forces
10 Oct 1945: Discharged Private, S70328, 3rd (SA) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC)

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Biography contributed by Steve Larkins

Son of Mrs Julia Ann Storer, resident at Park Street, Hyde Park, South Australia

Residential address - 9 Belair Rd Torrens Park SA

Husband of Vera.

Father of Eileene, Pamela & Gerald 

 

WW1 service - enlisted in the 6th Field Artillery Brigade, 18th Battery September 1915

Embarked for service overseas, 22 Nov 1915 on HMAT Persic from Outer Harbour Adelaide.  Disembarked Egypt.

Employed as a driver (of the horse teams used to tow the guns and ammunition limbers).

Saw service through 1916,17 less periods of leave and illness.  Hospitalised UK from leave January 1917.  

Awarded Military Medal, gazetted in September 1917.

Leave November 1917  Returned to unit 9 November

Wounded after returning to his unit from leave, 10 November 1917.

Returned to Australia wounded in January 1918

 

WW2 service - enlisted into the Volunteer Defence Corps in March 1942, serving in the 3rd Battalion.  DIscharged October 1945

Post WW2 - RSL Membership of Westbourne Park.  COntinuous membeship 1918-65. 

Died 8 Apr 1966

Interred Centennial Park Cemetery

 

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