BATEMAN, Arthur
| Service Number: | 1910 |
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| Enlisted: | 17 April 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 36th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Abersychan, Trevethan, Monmouthshire, Wales, March 1876 |
| Home Town: | Cockle Creek, Lake Macquarie Shire, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Miner |
| Died: | Red Cross Home, Dudley, New South Wales, Australia, 1 May 1953, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW METHODIST 4-23. 65. |
| Memorials: | Sulphide Corporation Pty. Ltd. Cockle Creek Works Honour Board |
World War 1 Service
| 17 Apr 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1910, 36th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 4 Sep 1916: | Involvement Private, 1910, 36th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Port Sydney embarkation_ship_number: A15 public_note: '' | |
| 4 Sep 1916: | Embarked Private, 1910, 36th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Port Sydney, Sydney | |
| 13 Dec 1917: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 1910, 36th Infantry Battalion, In London |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
“I Once Was Lost, but Now am Found”.
70 years ago today, on the Saturday of the 2nd May 1953, Private Arthur Bateman, 36th Battalion (Reg No-1910), labourer and miner from 4th Street, Boolaroo, New South Wales, was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 76. METHODIST 4-23. 65.
Arthur had died on the 1st May 1953 at the Red Cross Home, Dudley, N.S.W.
Born at Abersychan, Trevethan, Monmouthshire, Wales about March 1876 to George and Martha Bateman; husband of Sarah Ann Bateman nee Evans (married 1898 at Pontypool, Monmouthshire, Wales, died 24.12.1974 in Monmouthshire, Wales), Arthur enlisted on the 17th April 1916 at Boolaroo, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A15 Port Sydney on the 4th September 1916.
Admitted to hospital 17.7.1917 (defective vision), 26.7.1917 (scabies), 14.8.1917 (bronchitis & defective vision), 14.12.1917 (tuberculosis).
Arthur was discharged at London, England as permanently unfit on the 13th December 1917, not returning home till August 1920.
Mr. Bateman’s name has been inscribed on the Boolaroo District Pictorial Roll of Honour and the Sulphide Corporation Pty Ltd Cockle Creek Works Roll of Honour.
British War Medal & Victory Medal sent, but returned on the 10th May 1923.
Many thanks to Lynne Dalton for the notification and family history.
I placed a wooden cross at Arthur’s unmarked gravesite June 2015 in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
I submitted an application to DVA July 2019 asking for a Commonwealth War Graves Plaque, curbing and marble chip, and this was accepted August 2019.
Completed November 2019.
Officially commemorated – https://connect.dva.gov.au/.../viewCommemoration.html...
Honour and Dignity restored.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered “
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/
Lest We Forget.
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