PORTEUS, Arthur
| Service Number: | 3462 |
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| Enlisted: | 21 November 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 56th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Hexham, New South Wales, 31 January 1882 |
| Home Town: | Kurri Kurri, Cessnock, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Wheeler |
| Died: | Hillcrest Parade, Adamstown Heights, N.S.W., 25 April 1956, aged 74 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW PRESBYTERIAN-A18. 37. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 21 Nov 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3462, 56th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 24 Jan 1917: | Involvement Private, 3462, 56th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '19' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Anchises embarkation_ship_number: A68 public_note: '' | |
| 24 Jan 1917: | Embarked Private, 3462, 56th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Anchises, Sydney | |
| 20 Sep 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 3462, 56th Infantry Battalion, 2nd MD unfit - blindness in right eye |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery.
A Forgotten Digger of The Great War resting peacefully but anonymously at Sandgate Cemetery.
65 years ago today, on the 26th April 1956, Private Arthur Porteus, 56th Battalion (Reg No-3462), wheeler from Rawson Street, Kurri Kurri, New South Wales and Hillcrest Parade, Adamstown Heights, N.S.W., was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 74. PRESBYTERIAN-A18. 37.
Born at Hexham, New South Wales on the 31st January 1882 to George Herbert and Hannah Porteus of Abermain and Sawyers Gully, N.S.W., Arthur enlisted November 1916 at Rutherford, N.S.W.
Admitted to hospital 2.2.1918 (not stated), 20.5.1918 (conjunctivitis), Arthur returned home December 1918, being discharged medically unfit (blindness right eye, corneal scar) on the 20th September 1919.
I did not locate any information on Trove about enlistment, wounds, returning home, etc.
Mr Porteus’s name has been inscribed on the Abermain War Memorial (photo, unveiled on the 8th November 1919, 185 names inscribed, 36 Fell) and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall. Name not inscribed on the Kurri Kurri War Memorial.
I located Arthur resting peacefully but anonymously in an unmarked grave late 1990’s, and I placed a cross adorned with poppies on the gravesite Anzac Day 2016 (60 years after his death on Anzac Day 1956, hopefully not alone), taken a photo of the grave and uploaded the photo onto the Northern Cemetery website as a permanent record of his service. PRESBYTERIAN-A18. 37.
I will be submitting an application to DVA asking for a Commonwealth War Graves Plaque, curbing and marble chip to restore Honour and Dignity to Mr Porteus.
Lest We Forget.
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