ARKEY, Edward John
| Service Number: | 2112 |
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| Enlisted: | 6 April 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 4th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Paddington, New South Wales, Australia, date not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Marrickville, Marrickville, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Plasterer |
| Died: | 6 March 1936, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered, age not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 1 Service
| 6 Apr 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 16 Jun 1915: | Involvement Private, 2112, 4th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Karoola embarkation_ship_number: A63 public_note: '' | |
| 16 Jun 1915: | Embarked Private, 2112, 4th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Karoola, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Arkey was one of the 155 men of the 6th reinforcements to the 4th Battalion embarked from Sydney on 16 June 1915. They stopped at Fremantle on the way and they disembarked in Egypt on the 21st July and only two weeks later the bulk of them landed the at Anzac to reinforce the 4th Battalion. No time for training.
They landed at Gallipoli on the 4 August 1915.
Private John Arkey, wounded in action during the Battle of Lone Pine, was listed as dangerously ill at Malta for over a year, with severe shrapnel wounds to his hip and head. He was removed from the dangerously ill list on the 29th July 1916 and placed on the “seriously ill” list a few days later. Arkey was evacuated from Malta to a hospital in England on the 22nd August 1916 and admitted there with a fractured skull and severe shrapnel wound to the hip. He was released from hospital in England in March 1918 and returned to Australia in April 1918. He passed away in 1936, still only 40 years of age.