Arthur Joseph WEIR

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WEIR, Arthur Joseph

Service Number:	358
Enlisted:	15 July 1915
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	29th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Winiam, Victoria, Australia, 6 February 1889
Home Town:	Nhill, Hindmarsh, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Farmer
Died:	Killed in Action, France, 19 July 1916, aged 27 years
Cemetery:	Fromelles (Pheasant Wood) Military Cemetery Plot I, Row B, Grave No 4
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

World War 1 Service

15 Jul 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 358, Depot Battalion
10 Nov 1915:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 358, 29th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ascanius embarkation_ship_number: A11 public_note: ''
10 Nov 1915:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 358, 29th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ascanius, Melbourne
19 Jul 1916:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 358, 29th Infantry Battalion, Fromelles (Fleurbaix)

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Biography contributed by Stephen Brooks

Arthur Weir was a farmer who had been a member of the Winiam Rifle Club in country Victoria. His first action was at Fromelles with the 29th Battalion and there were no eyewitness accounts in the Red Cross Wounded and Missing files to give any insight into how he died. His name was recorded on a German death list as having been buried at Fromelles. Arthur’s identity disc was received from Germany during March 1917. There is a note in his file saying that disc was sent to his next of kin, later in 1917.

The list of 75 Australian soldiers whose remains were recovered from the burial pits at Pheasant Wood, Fromelles and whose identities have been established by the Fromelles Joint Identification Board was released on Wednesday 17 March 2010. One of those being Arthur Joseph Weir. He now has a grave at the Pheasant Wood Fromelles Military Cemetery.

His brother, 136 Pte. Frederick William Weir 38th Battalion AIF, was killed in action near Passchendaele on 13 October 1917, aged 29.

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