Arthur Robert TRINGHAM

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TRINGHAM, Arthur Robert

Service Number:	2230
Enlisted:	22 March 1915, Enlisted at Northam, WA
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	11th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Manouya, Ceylon, 1881
Home Town:	Nangeenan, Merredin, Western Australia
Schooling:	St Edward's Newerea Eliya Ceylon
Occupation:	Farmer
Died:	Killed in Action, Gallipoli, Gallipoli, Dardanelles, Turkey, 6 August 1915
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Lone Pine Memorial Panel 34, Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Lone Pine Memorial to the Missing, Merredin (Unknown) Roll of Honour, Merredin Hines Hill District Roll of Honour, Merredin Nangeenan Roll of Honour, Merredin War Memorial, Merredin and Districts Roll of Honor

World War 1 Service

22 Mar 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2230, 11th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Northam, WA
6 Jun 1915:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 2230, 11th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Geelong embarkation_ship_number: A2 public_note: ''
6 Aug 1915:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 2230, 11th Infantry Battalion, The August Offensive - Lone Pine, Suvla Bay, Sari Bair, The Nek and Hill 60 - Gallipoli, KIA

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Biography contributed by Carol Foster

Arrived in Australia aged 27 years. Address at the time of enlistment was Nangeenan, WA

Son of Walter Robert Tringham J.P. and Isabella Jane Tringham. Brother of Lucy Dulling nee Tringham of Colombo, Ceylon

Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

He was a volunteer with the Ceylon Planters Rifle Corps

In Ceylon he was a tea planter. Thinking he could achieve more in Australia he went to Perth, WA where he gained a Government lease for a few hundred acres leaving it only to enlist for the War

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