Arthur Henry RICHARDS

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RICHARDS, Arthur Henry

Service Number:	889
Enlisted:	1 December 1915, C Coy
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	9th Light Trench Mortar Battery
Born:	Booval, Ipswich, Queensland, Australia, 20 December 1890
Home Town:	Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Coal Miner
Died:	Dora Creek, Wyong, New South Wales, Australia, 31 August 1962, aged 71 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Newcastle Memorial Park (fmly Beresfield Crematorium)
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World War 2 Service

1 Dec 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 889, 35th Infantry Battalion, C Coy

World War 1 Service

1 May 1916:	Involvement Private, 889, 35th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Benalla embarkation_ship_number: A24 public_note: ''
1 May 1916:	Embarked Private, 889, 35th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Benalla, Sydney
3 Dec 1916:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 9th Light Trench Mortar Battery, France
11 Feb 1917:	Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 889, 9th Light Trench Mortar Battery, Boulogne, France: GSW thigh - amputation
3 Jul 1917:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 889, 9th Light Trench Mortar Battery, per HMAT Karoola
12 Dec 1917:	Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 889, 9th Light Trench Mortar Battery

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Arthur was the third of four children of Arthur James Richards (born 1866 in Warwickshire, England) and Maria Keeling (born 1856 in Leicestershire, England). Maria had worked as a Net Maker and Warehouse Hand in Leicestershire and Arthur as a Coal Miner when they married in Leicestershire in 1884. They immigrated with their two children (Mary and Francis) in 1890, arriving in Brisbane, QLD on board the Taroba. The family lived in Ipswich, QLD where Arthur Snr was a Coal Minier until they relocated to Woolongong, NSW in 1895.

Born in Ipswich, QLD, Arthur was working as a Coal Miner in Sydney, NSW when he enlisted in the AIF in December 1915. He served as a Private (Service No:889) with 35th Infantry Battalion and 9th Light Trench Mortar Battery in France where he was WiA at Boulogne in 1917. As a result of his injury - GSW to the thigh - his leg was amputated and he returned to Australia in July 1917. Arthur was Discharged in December 1917. Brother Francis Stanley (Private, Service No:224) also served in WWI and nephews Godfrey Stanley (Private, Service No:N248923), Ronald Charles (Flight Sergeant, Service No:403281) and Albert Ralley (Leading Aircraftman, Service No:63601) served in WWII.

In 1916 Arthur married Alice Mary Elsie Caban (born 1888 in Ellalong, NSW) in Sydney, NSW, and following Arthur's return from WWI they settled at Marrickville in Sydney where Arthur was a Gatekeeper.

Following Alice's death in 1944 Arthur remarried Margaret (Marj) Gilchrist and they moved to Dora Creek in Wyong, NSW. Arthur died in 1962.

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