Arnold, Alfred (1467)
Place of Birth: Port Melbourne, VIC
Age: 39 years 11 months
Enlistment Details: Thursday, 8 July 1915 – Melbourne, VIC
Service Number: 1467 view online service record
Address:
1 Nicholson Terrace, Nicholson Street
East Brunswick, VIC
Next of Kin:
Margaret Arnold (wife)
1 Nicholson Terrace, Nicholson Street
East Brunswick, VIC
Embarkation Details:
Date: Tuesday, 23 November 1915
Ship: HMAT Ceramic A40
Port: Melbourne, VIC
Unit: 9th Light Horse Regiment – 12th Reinforcements
Fate:
KIA: Sunday, 7 October 1917
Place: Belgium
Driver, 4 Field Artillery, killed in action, 7 October, 1917, Belgium, aged 40, commemorated Birr Cross Roads Cemetery, Flanders, Belgium.
Parents: William and Elizabeth ARNOLD, wife Mrs Margaret ARNOLD, born Port Melbourne. He enlisted at 39 years of age, a labourer with his wife in Nicholson Street, East Brunswick. Directories around the time he was born suggest his father was a fishmonger in Bay Street.
Additional research by Brian Membrey
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Brian Membrey
“Driver A. Arnold of 11th Batty (previously with L.H) was killed on the Corduroy Track going to Westlock Ridge while on a 8 horse team. The lead driver “Hobby” Henderson and another driver were also killed outright by two shells which also killed the team and I hear a fourth driver died of wounds … (Robinson, Dr. G. 11th Batty.) (Victorian BDM reveals a second given name of Henry)