ELL, Arthur Edward
| Service Numbers: | 25529, 25559 |
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| Enlisted: | 29 October 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Driver |
| Last Unit: | 3rd Field Artillery Brigade |
| Born: | Merriwa, New South Wales, Australia , 29 August 1893 |
| Home Town: | Merriwa, Upper Hunter Shire, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Clerk |
| Died: | Cardiff, New South Wales, Australia, 28 July 1957, aged 63 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Newcastle (Sandgate) War Cemetery CATHOLIC 2-49. 107. |
| Memorials: | Merriwa War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 29 Oct 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Driver, 25529, 1st Field Artillery Brigade | |
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| 29 Jun 1916: | Involvement Driver, 25529, 1st Field Artillery Brigade, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '3' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Orsova embarkation_ship_number: A67 public_note: '' | |
| 29 Jun 1916: | Embarked Driver, 25529, 1st Field Artillery Brigade, HMAT Orsova, Sydney | |
| 4 Apr 1917: | Transferred AIF WW1, Driver, 3rd Field Artillery Brigade | |
| 6 Jun 1917: | Wounded AIF WW1, Driver, 25559, 3rd Field Artillery Brigade , Battle of Messines, GSW head and back | |
| 24 May 1918: | Discharged AIF WW1, Driver, 25529, 3rd Field Artillery Brigade , 2nd MD due to wounding |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell
Served and suffered in The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
63 years ago today, on the 30th July 1957, Driver Arthur Edward Ell, 3rd Australian Field Artillery Brigade, clerk and bricklayer from Merriwa, New South Wales and 12 Rowe Street (Rowes Lane), Cardiff, N.S.W., father of five, was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 63. CATHOLIC 2-49. 107.
Born at Merriwa, New South Wales on the 29th August 1893 to James Edward and Mary Elizabeth Ell nee Partridge; husband of Edith P Ell nee Farr (married 1920, died?), Arthur enlisted October 1915 with the 1st Australian Field Artillery Brigade at Holsworthy, N.S.W.
Admitted to hospital - 16.1.1917 (influenza), wounded in action - 6.6.1917 (GSW head & back), Mr Ell returned home April 1918, and was discharged medically unfit on the 24th May 1918.
Arthur’s name has been inscribed on the Merriwa War Memorial (photo, unveiled on the 27th October 1923).
Mr Ell had been resting in an unmarked grave, (but not forgotten by Great Niece Giavanna Angeli), so I placed a cross adorned with poppies on the gravesite November 2016, taken a photo of the grave and uploaded the photo onto the Northern Cemetery website as a permanent record of his service.
http://sandgate.northerncemeteries.com.au/index.php/war-heroes/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=103&aso=exact&s_f=id&data_search=19281#grave-photo-1
An application for a Commonwealth War Graves Plaque, curbing and marble chip submitted December 2019, declined July 2020.
Arthur will receive a Plaque courtesy of the Forgotten Diggers Headstone Project.
Older brother Walter James (Reg No-1115, 35th Battalion, born 1887, died 1934) also resting at the cemetery in an unmarked grave. CATHOLIC 2-34. 53.
An application for a Commonwealth War Graves Plaque, curbing and marble chip submitted December 2019, still waiting for a decision.
Lest We Forget.
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