ANSON, Arthur George
Service Number: | 6276 |
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Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 22nd Infantry Battalion |
Born: | Purnim, Victoria, Australia, 1 January 1896 |
Home Town: | Timboon, Corangamite, Victoria |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Labourer |
Died: | Killed in Action, Belgium, 4 October 1917, aged 21 years |
Cemetery: |
Buttes New British Cemetery, Polygon Wood Buttes New British Cemetery, Polygon Wood, Zonnebeke, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Timboon Honor Roll, Timboon Honor Roll |
World War 1 Service
23 Nov 1916: | Involvement Private, 6276, 22nd Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '14' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Hororata embarkation_ship_number: A20 public_note: '' | |
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23 Nov 1916: | Embarked Private, 6276, 22nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Hororata, Melbourne | |
Date unknown: | Involvement Private, 6276, 22 Infantry Battalion AMF |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Robert Kearney
Listed in the Timboon Honour Roll.
Arthur's Platoon Comrade, H.J.A. Bennett confirmed his death saying "......He was killed alongside of me. I am quite certain of this, he was lying in the same shell hole same and I tried to wake him, thinking he was asleep"
Arthur was the son of James and Christina (McQuarrie) Anson, whose address was given as Timboon on his record.
Courtesy of James Affleck and Peter Younes.