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OLIVER, Arthur Leslie
| Service Number: | 3215 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 10th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Brunswick, May 1896 |
| Home Town: | Brunswick, Moreland, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Gardener |
| Died: | mile end, 23 June 1965, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Centennial Park Cemetery, South Australia |
| Memorials: | Aldgate War Memorial, Scott's Creek & Longwood Roll of Honour, Scott's Creek and Longwood Roll of Honor |
World War 1 Service
| 14 Sep 1915: | Involvement Private, 3215, 10th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Ballarat embarkation_ship_number: A70 public_note: '' | |
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| 14 Sep 1915: | Embarked Private, 3215, 10th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ballarat, Adelaide | |
| Date unknown: | Wounded 3215, 10th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Heathfield High School
Arthur Leslie Oliver was born in 1885 in Brunswick , Victoria, Australia. He was the son of Charles Oliver and Jane Brown. Before Arthur went to war, he was a gardener which he enjoyed very much. At some stage tthe family moved to South Australia and his father who was his nominated next of kin resided at Longwood in the Adelaide Hills.
On June 10th 1915, aged 19 Arthur enlisted at Keswick, South Australia. Arthur was put in the 10th Battalion. The 10th Battalion was among the first raised after the declaration of War on the 6th August 1914.
Arthur embarked on September 14th, 1915 on the ship Seang Bee from Outer Harbour. He disembarked at Alexandria in Egypt on December 29th, 1915 for further training.
While Arthur was in the war Marion Stoyel, a dear friend of his had been writing back and forth to each other but after Marion didn’t hear from Arthur in 6 months, she sent a letter to the Red Cross Bureau to hopefully find out some information (see photo 5) and express their concern about him, considering that they hadn’t heard from him in 6 months and the last that they had heard was that he had been gassed. By the time the Red Cross Bureau had replied, Marion had got a letter from Arthur telling her that he had been very sick and that was the reason why he was unable to write back. This information has been taken from the primary source of the official letter that had been sent to the Red Cross Bureau.
Arthur made many trips to the hospital during his time and many of the hospitals he went to were in France. Arthur being sick ended up being the reason he came home early from the war. Arthur went to the hospital sick with gastritis, diarrhea, and measles and he also went to the hospital synovitis in his right knee. He was wounded in action in August 1916 and was gassed.
In late 1917 Arthur became sick with Rheumatic Fever which sent him to the hospital again and it became a big issue. He was in the hospital for this from 14/12/1917 until he was sent home on 8/4/1917.
Arthur married on the 27th of August 1919 to Doris Myrtle Green at the Baptist Church, Richmond, South Australia.
Arthur died on the 23rd of June 1965 at age 69. He was cremated on the 25th of June 1965 and his ashes were spread at Centennial Park in the Derrick Gardens, where there are about 3,500 memorial headstones.
Bibliography
https://brunswickhistory.org.au/
https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/R1897170
https://www.centennialpark.org/memorial-search-list/arthur-leslie-oliver-108825/
https://www.dva.gov.au/media/media-backgrounders/first-world-war-western-front#:~:text=The%20AIF%20suffered%20its%20greatest,More%20than%20100%2C000%20were%20wounded.
https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=7996522&S=1
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Oliver-14987