HOLL, Arthur Reginald Myrie
| Service Number: | 4214 |
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| Enlisted: | 6 July 1915, Bendigo, Victoria |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 6th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Bendigo, Victoria, Australia, January 1895 |
| Home Town: | Bendigo, Greater Bendigo, Victoria |
| Schooling: | State School, Badger Creek, Healesville, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | Clerk |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 7 December 1916 |
| Cemetery: |
AIF Burial Ground, Grass Lane, Flers, France Plot I, Row B, Grave No. 41, |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Bendigo Great War Roll of Honor |
World War 1 Service
| 6 Jul 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4214, Bendigo, Victoria | |
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| 29 Dec 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 4214, 6th Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Demosthenes embarkation_ship_number: A64 public_note: '' | |
| 29 Dec 1915: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 4214, 6th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Demosthenes, Melbourne | |
| 23 Jul 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 4214, 6th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières | |
| 14 Aug 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 4214, 6th Infantry Battalion, Mouquet Farm | |
| 30 Aug 1916: | Promoted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 6th Infantry Battalion, France | |
| 7 Dec 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 4214, 6th Infantry Battalion, 'The Winter Offensive' - Flers/Gueudecourt winter of 1916/17 | |
| 7 Dec 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 4214, 6th Infantry Battalion, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 4214 awm_unit: 6th Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Lance Corporal awm_died_date: 1916-12-07 |
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Lance Corporal, Arthur Reginald Myrie Holl, Service number 4212,
Reg Holl
Enlisted in the 13th Reinforcements of the 6th Australian Infantry Battalion on July 6,1915. He was just twenty years of age and needed his parents permission and a letter releasing him from service with his employee H. M Leggo. He was well regarded in Bendigo as a sportsman with the Sandhurst Rowing Club and Harriers.
He was been employed at Leggo's as a clerk prior to his enlistment and his next of kin was his father, Arthur Wellsley Myrie Holl of Bayne Street, Bendigo. His father age 45, would enlist in late 1917 making a rare Father - Son enlistment double within the AIF.
(Father - Arthur Wellsley Myrie Holl, SN 2309 returned from service with the Railway section in 1919- Remembered on the White Hills Arch of Triumph, Bendigo)
Reg embarked from Melbourne 29/12/1915 per HMAT Demosthenes A64. He would land in Egypt in early March 1916 and be TOS 'Taken on Strength' into the 6th battalion which had suffered heavy casualties at Gallipoli.
In March 1916, the reformed and strengthened 6th battalion sailed to France. They would travel from Alexandia, Egypt and land at Marsilles in Southern France. From there they would train through the interrior of France.
They would be deployed to the Somme, where it was sent to a quiet sector near Fleurbaix. Its first combat came on 12 June when the battalion launched a trench raid on the Germans opposite their position.Their first major action in France came later, however, at Pozières in July 1916, during which time they lost 102 men killed. Later the battalion fought at Ypres, in Belgium, before returning to the Somme in winter, during which time they undertook defensive duties as well as patrols into no man's land. After this the battalion took part in the Second Battle of Bullecourt, before taking part in the Battle of Menin Road in September 1917.
Reg would be promoted to Lance Corporal at the end of August and be killed in action in France 7.12.1916 aged 20 years & 11 months.
He is remembered at AIF Burial Ground, Flers, Picardie, France.
In the Bendigonian newspaper, Thursday 13 December 1917 page 7 Family Notices
HOLL.--- In loving memory of our much-loved son and brother, Lance-Corporal A. R. Holl (Reg.), killed in action 7th December, 1916, in France. Aged 21 years. Our soldier hero. --- Inserted by his loving mother, father (on active service), sisters and brother.
HOLL.--- In loving memory of our late comrade, Private A. R. Holl, who was killed in action in France on 7th December, 1916. --- Inserted by the office staff of H. M. Leggo and Co.
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