HUNT, Arnold Leigh
| Service Number: | 202 |
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| Enlisted: | 11 March 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 5th Field Ambulance |
| Born: | Jamberoo, New South Wales, Australia, 1897 |
| Home Town: | Woonona, Wollongong, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Jamberoo Public School, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Railway cleaner |
| Died: | GSW to back, Lambeth, South London, England, United Kingdom, 25 June 1917 |
| Cemetery: |
Ipswich Old Cemetery Plot BA, Row I, Grave 69 |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board |
World War 1 Service
| 11 Mar 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 202, 20th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 25 Jun 1915: | Involvement Private, 202, 20th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '13' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Berrima embarkation_ship_number: A35 public_note: '' | |
| 25 Jun 1915: | Embarked Private, 202, 20th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Berrima, Sydney |
World War 2 Service
| 3 May 1917: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 202, 5th Field Ambulance, Machine Gun Wound to spine. Evacuated from France to England. Died of wounds. |
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World War 1 Service
| 25 Jun 1917: | Involvement Private, 202, 5th Field Ambulance, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 202 awm_unit: 5th Australian Field Ambulance awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1917-06-25 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
He was 20 and the son of James and Emma Hunt, of Jamberoo, New South Wales.
Biography contributed by Evan Evans
The summary below was completed by Cathy Sedgwick – Facebook “WW1 Australian War Graves in England/UK
Died on this date - 25th June......Private Arnold Leigh Hunt was born in 1897 at Jamberoo, near Kiama, NSW. He enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force (A.I.F.) on 11th March, 1915 as a 20 year old Railway Cleaner from Woonona, Illawarra, NSW.
Private Hunt embarked from Sydney, NSW on 25th June, 1915. He was admitted to 5th Field Ambulance on 16th September, 1915 then transferred to Australian Casualty Clearing Station - Anzac with Dysentry. He was admitted on Hospital Ship Maheno & transferred to a hospital in Malta with Typhoid on 23rd September, 1915. Pte Hunt embarked on Hospital Ship Cairnsbrook Castle from Malta for England on 16th October, 1915.
Pte Hunt was admitted to Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley on 23rd October, 1915 with Enteric.
Private Hunt proceeded to France & was marched out to Reinforcements of Australian Medical Corps on 31st July, 1916 & taken on strength with 5th Field Ambulance in France on 6th August, 1916.
Private Hunt was wounded in action in France 3 May 1917 with GSW to back. He was invalided to England & admitted to 1st London General Hospital, Camberwell, England on 29th May, 1917 with a gunshot wound to spine – lumbar region.
Private Arnold Leigh Hunt died at 9.40 am on 25th June, 1917 at 1st London General Hospital, Camberwell, England from gunshot wound to spine received in action in France. He was buried in Ipswich Old Cemetery, Suffolk where 3 other WW1 Australians are buried.
(The above is a summary of my research. The full research can be found by following the link below)
https://ww1austburialsuk.weebly.com/ipswich.html
Biography contributed by John Oakes
Arnold Leigh HUNT (Service Number 202) was born at Jamberoo NSW about April 1895. At the time of his enlistment at Liverpool on 16th March 1915 he was not married and gave his mother, Emma, as his next of kin.
Hunt left Australia from Sydney aboard HMAT ‘Berrima’ on 26th June 1915. At some stage on his journey to Europe he became ill with dysentery and was hospitalised in Malta. He then embarked on ‘Cairnsbrook Castle’ for England and admission to the Royal Victoria Hospital Netley on 23rd October 1915. It was not until August 1916 that he was fit enough to join the 5th Field Ambulance in France.
For the next nine months Hunt went about his work with the field ambulance, probably most often as a stretcher bearer.
It was while he was performing this work, on 3rd May 1917, that he received a machine gun wound to his spine. He lived long enough to be evacuated to England, and was visited by an uncle, aunt and cousins. However, the wound was severe,. He died at the 1st London General Hospital, Camberwell on 25th June 1917.
He was buried with full military honours in the Ipswich Cemetery.
‘The deceased soldier was buried with Military Honours. Gun carriage drawn by six horses provided by the 72nd Div. Field Artillery stationed at Ipswich conveyed the remains of the deceased soldier to the Cemetery. Firing party and buglers of the 2/6th Northumberland Fusiliers, under the command of Lieutenant Matthews, were in attendance. The coffin was draped with the Australian flag and surmounted with several lovely floral tributes. Prior to the interment a service was held in the chapel at the Cemetery by the Rev. C.F.T. Parsons. The ‘Last Post’ was sounded at the graveside by six buglers of the 2/6th Northumberland Fusiliers.’
- based on the Australian War Memorial Honour Roll and notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board.
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