AMBER, Archibald
| Service Number: | 3187 |
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| Enlisted: | 30 June 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 1st Pioneer Battalion |
| Born: | Payneham, SA, 20 October 1896 |
| Home Town: | Maylands (SA), Norwood Payneham St Peters, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Public School |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Belgium, 23 October 1917, aged 21 years |
| Cemetery: |
Belgian Battery Corner Cemetery Plot II Row D Grave 5, Belgian Battery Corner Cemetery, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium |
| Memorials: | Adelaide National War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Payneham Roll of Honour, St Peters Heroes War Memorial, St Peters Heroes of the Great War Honour Roll |
World War 1 Service
| 30 Jun 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3187, 10th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 2 Sep 1915: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 3187, 10th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Anchises embarkation_ship_number: A68 public_note: '' | |
| 23 Oct 1917: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 3187, 1st Pioneer Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 3187 awm_unit: 1st Australian Pioneer Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1917-10-23 |
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Son of Isaac AMBER and Jane nee LOADER
Biography contributed by Adelaide Botanic High School
Amber Archibald was born male in Payneham, South Australia on the 20th of October 1896, the son of Isaac and Jane Amber. Amber Archibald attended a public school before shortly joining the war. Amber lived on 25 Phillis Street, Maylands. His occupation before the war was a labourer. Amber enlisted on the 30 of June 1915 at the age of 18 and 8 months
He then embarked on HMAT ‘Anchises on the 2nd of September 1915 (WW1 Embarkation list). From the 13th of November 1915 to 26th March 1916, he was in the Middle East. Most of this time was spent either in hospital or on a hospital ship in various locations, suffering from mumps and dysentery. He embarked to join BEF at Alexandria on the 26th of March 1916 and disembarked on the 2nd of April in Marseilles. He sustained a gunshot wound to the knee in Rouen on 26th July 1916 and was transferred to England, he was discharged in 8th September 1916. He remained in England until he proceeded to France on the 15th of March 1917.
During this time, he was awarded 168 hours detention after he failed to return to parade after having been fallen out to get his great coat. On the 4th of April 1917 he joined his unit. From the 1st of August to the 16th of October 1917, he was once again in hospital suffering from PUO (pyrexia of unknown origin) He rejoined his unit and was tragically killed in Belgium on the 23rd of October 1917, three days after his 21st Birthday. The history of the 10th Battalion shows that they were engaged in the Third Battle of Ypres at the time of his death.
Archibald died on Anzac bridge; this didn’t allow him to continue serving in the war after. His death better said by Archie’s friends. “ I knew Amber. He was killed just above Anzac bridge. He was blown up by a shell. He was carried down, and buried at Belgium Chateau just outside Pyres. There was only one Amber, his name Archie.”
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