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STORER, Arnold Henry Jefferson
| Service Numbers: | 8444, S70328 |
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| Enlisted: | 18 September 1915, 18th Battery |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 3rd (SA) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) |
| Born: | Goodwood Park, SA, 6 February 1890 |
| Home Town: | Torrens Park, Mitcham, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Telephone Mechanic |
| Died: | Natural Causes, Adelaide, South Australia, 8 April 1966, aged 76 years |
| Cemetery: |
Centennial Park Cemetery, South Australia South East, Individual Rose Bed SG2, Position 024 |
| Memorials: | Adelaide Officers of S.A. Post, Telegraph and Telephone Department HR, Glenelg and District WW1 & WW2 Honour Board, Postmaster General's Department Adelaide, Unley Museum Honour Board, Unley Town Hall WW1 Honour Board |
World War 1 Service
| 18 Sep 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Driver, 8444, 6th Field Artillery Brigade , 18th Battery | |
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| 22 Nov 1915: | Embarked AIF WW1, Driver, 8444, 6th Field Artillery Brigade , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '4' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Persic embarkation_ship_number: A34 public_note: '' | |
| 23 Jul 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Driver, 8444, 6th Field Artillery Brigade , Battle for Pozières | |
| 27 Jul 1917: | Honoured Military Medal, Third Ypres, Part of the 5th Army, the 6th Field Artillery Brigade's 18th Battery, gun position was hit by enemy artillery fire and a fire ensued. Gunner Storer and a number of other men acted without fear of their own lives to extinguish the fire such that only a small number of rounds of their own ammunition were lost. All guns in the Battery were damaged by shell splinters. However the Battery was back in action the following day thanks largely to the actions of the men involved in fighting the fire. | |
| 10 Nov 1917: | Wounded AIF WW1, Gunner, 8444, 6th Field Artillery Brigade , 2nd Passchendaele , Shrapnel Wounds to Thigh leg and Abdomen Evacuated to UK & hospital in Harefield | |
| 24 Jan 1918: | Embarked AIF WW1, Gunner, 8444, 6th Field Artillery Brigade , Embarked HMAT for Return to Australia (Wounded) Transferred to HMAT Karoola Capetown. Disembarked Adelaide 10 March 1918 | |
| 9 Sep 1918: | Discharged AIF WW1, Gunner, 8444, 6th Field Artillery Brigade , Keswick Barracks Adelaide |
World War 2 Service
| 10 Apr 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, S70328 | |
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| 10 Apr 1942: | Enlisted Private, S70328, 3rd (SA) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC), Adelaide, SA | |
| 11 Apr 1942: | Involvement Private, S70328, 3rd (SA) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC), Homeland Defence - Militia and non deployed forces | |
| 10 Oct 1945: | Discharged Private, S70328, 3rd (SA) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Steve Larkins
Son of Mrs Julia Ann Storer, resident at Park Street, Hyde Park, South Australia
Residential address - 9 Belair Rd Torrens Park SA
Husband of Vera.
Father of Eileene, Pamela & Gerald
WW1 service - enlisted in the 6th Field Artillery Brigade, 18th Battery September 1915
Embarked for service overseas, 22 Nov 1915 on HMAT Persic from Outer Harbour Adelaide. Disembarked Egypt.
Employed as a driver (of the horse teams used to tow the guns and ammunition limbers).
Saw service through 1916,17 less periods of leave and illness. Hospitalised UK from leave January 1917.
Awarded Military Medal, gazetted in September 1917.
Leave November 1917 Returned to unit 9 November
Wounded after returning to his unit from leave, 10 November 1917.
Returned to Australia wounded in January 1918
WW2 service - enlisted into the Volunteer Defence Corps in March 1942, serving in the 3rd Battalion. DIscharged October 1945
Post WW2 - RSL Membership of Westbourne Park. COntinuous membeship 1918-65.
Died 8 Apr 1966
Interred Centennial Park Cemetery
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