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| image           =[[File:Unknown.png|border|400px]]
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| dateofbirth	  = 29 Aug 1899
| placeofbirth	  = London, England
| death	          = 1990
| placeofdeath	  = Narrogin, Western Australia
| enlistmentage	  = 18 years, 2 months

| description	  = 5'6¼" (1.m) tall; weight 120lbs; fair complexion, blue eyes, brown hair
| height          = 5'6¼" (1.m)
| weight          = 120lbs
| complexion      = fair
| eyes            = blue
| hair            = brown    
| descriptionnote = 
| occupation	  = Window dresser
| religion	  = Church of England
| address	  = 'Beechwort', Station road, Gosnells, Western Australia
| relation	  = Father
| nextofkin       = Mr Frederick Barrett
| regnumber	  = [https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=3052372 23021]
| enlistmentdate  = 25 Oct 1917
| rank	          = Sapper
| unit     	  = 1st Australian & New Zealand Wireless Signal Station
| embarkationdatefrom = 14 Sep 1918
| embarkationdateto = 23 Oct 1918
| shipembarked	  = [[SS Port Darwin]]
| embarkationdatefrom2 =17 Oct 1918
| embarkationdateto2 = 28 Oct 1918
| shipembarked2 = [[HMT Egra]]
| dateofreturnfrom = 5 Nov 1919
| dateofreturnto  = 11 Nov 1919
| shipreturned    = [[SS Varela]]
| shipreturnednote =
| dateofreturnfrom2 = 1 Dec 1919
| dateofreturnto2  = 22 Dec 1919
| shipreturned2    = [[HMAT A7 Medic]]
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| monument1	  = [[Gosnells RSL Honour Board]]
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| medal1	  = [[British War Medal]]
| medal2          = [[Victory Medal]]
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==War Service==
Following basic training in WA, and after a period of leave from 12 - 17 Jan 1918, Arthur was sent to the Army Signals School at Moore Park in New South Wales.  On 7 Feb 1918 he became a member of the Wireless Station reinforcement draft for Mesopotamia. On 3 Sep 1918 he was admitted to the Field Hospital in Liverpool New South Wales with influenza, before being discharged on 5 Sep 1918.

The reinforcements embarked from Sydney on the [[SS Port Darwin]], and were transhipped at Bombay in India. They disembarked at Egra Basrah (Iraq) on 23 Oct 1918 from  [[HMT Egra]]. On arrival he entered camp at Margil, before joining his unit in Baghdad on 16 Nov 1918.

On 14 Dec 1918 he was admitted to the 31st Stationary Hospital in Baghdad with dysentry, and was discharged to duty on 30 Dec 1918. Admitted to hospital again on 23 Sep 1919 at Zakho, and was released on 1 Oct 1919.

Discharged by 5th Military District on 6 Jan 1920.
==Post War==
In 1926 Arthur married Charlotte Beatrice Farrell. Charlotte died in Narrogin on 13 Jun 1994 aged 91. Two daughters, Joan and Beverley.
==Notes==
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