Arthur (Tats) TATLOW

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TATLOW, Arthur

Service Numbers:	1815, 1552
Enlisted:	6 January 1915, HMAT Wiltshire, Melbourne
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	8th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Burnie, Tasmania, 28 August 1879
Home Town:	North Fitzroy, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Bricklayer
Died:	Killed in Action, Belgium, 4 October 1917, aged 38 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Commemorated on the YPRES(MENIN GATE)MEMORIAL Panel 7 - 17 - 23 - 25 - 27 - 29 - 31, Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Menin Gate Memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing of the Ypres Salient)

World War 1 Service

6 Jan 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1815, 8th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Wiltshire, Melbourne
14 Apr 1915:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 1815, 8th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '9' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Wiltshire embarkation_ship_number: A18 public_note: ''
4 Oct 1917:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 1552, 8th Infantry Battalion, Broodseinde Ridge, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 1552 awm_unit: 8 Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1917-10-04

Military Record

Previous military service Nil
Enlistment date 6 January 1915
Rank on enlistment Private
Unit name 8th Battalion, 4th Reinforcement
AWM Embarkation Roll number 23/25/2
Embarkation details Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A18 Wiltshire on 14 April 1915
Regimental number from Nominal Roll 1552
Rank from Nominal Roll Corporal
Unit from Nominal Roll 8th Battalion
Fate Killed in Action 4 October 1917
Place of death or wounding Belgium
Age at death 38
Age at death from cemetery records 37
Place of burial No known grave
Commemoration details The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 7), Belgium
The Menin Gate Memorial (so named because the road led to the town of Menin) was constructed on the site of a gateway in the eastern walls of the old Flemish town of Ypres, Belgium, where hundreds of thousands of allied troops passed on their way to the front, the Ypres salient, the site from April 1915 to the end of the war of some of the fiercest fighting of the war.

The Memorial was conceived as a monument to the 350,000 men of the British Empire who fought in the campaign. Inside the arch, on tablets of Portland stone, are inscribed the names of 56,000 men, including 6,178 Australians, who served in the Ypres campaign and who have no known grave.

The opening of the Menin Gate Memorial on 24 July 1927 so moved the Australian artist Will Longstaff that he painted 'The Menin Gate at Midnight', which portrays a ghostly army of the dead marching past the Menin Gate. The painting now hangs in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, at the entrance of which are two medieval stone lions presented to the Memorial by the City of Ypres in 1936.

Since the 1930s, with the brief interval of the German occupation in the Second World War, the City of Ypres has conducted a ceremony at the Memorial at dusk each evening to commemorate those who died in the Ypres campaign.

Panel number, Roll of Honour,
Australian War Memorial 54
Miscellaneous information from
cemetery records Parents: Charles J. and Sarah M. TATLOW, 31 Newry Street, North Fitzroy, Victoria. Native of Burnie, Tasmania
Family/military connections Sister: Sister Flora Amelia TATLOW, Australian Army Nursing Service, returned to Australia, 3 July 1919; Cousin: Kelvin James TATLOW, AIF Camp, Claremont, died in camp of cerebro-spinal meningitis, 16 October 1915.~
Other details
War service: Egypt, Gallipoli, Western Front

Joined 8th Bn at Gallipoli, 26 May 1915. Admitted to 2nd Stationary Hospital, Mudros, 20 October 1915 (hernia); discharged, 21 October 1915, and admitted to Lowland Convalescent Camp. Admitted to Anzac Advanced Base, 31 October 1915; transferred to 11th Division Base Depot, 1 November 1915; to 3rd Auxiliary Hospital Convalescent Depot, Heliopolis, 14 January 1916; discharged to duty, 15 February 1916.

Proceeded from Alexandria to join the British Expeditionary Force, 26 March 1916; disembarked Marseilles, 31 March 1916. Promoted Temporary Corporal, 30 July 1916; Corporal, 12 August 1916.

Wounded in action, Belgium, 11 September 1916 (shell wound, right elbow); admitted to 3rd Canadian General Hospital, Boulogne, 13 September 1916. Transferred to England, 15 September 1916, and admitted to Leeds War Hospital (gun shot wound, right arm). Transferred to 1st Auxiliary Hospital, 18 October 1916; discharged to No. 1 Command Depot, Perham Downs, 23 October 1916. Granted furlough, 25 October 1916; reported back from furlough, 10 November 1916. Marched into 2nd Training Bn,13 November 1916. Admitted to Military Hospital, Fargo, 4 January 1917 (gun shot wound, right arm); discharged to Perham Downs, 6 February 1917. Proceeded overseas to France, 15 March 1917; rejoined 8th Bn, 10 April 1917.

Wounded in action, 8 May 1917 (shell wound, right cheek), and admitted to 3rd Casualty Clearing Station; discharged to duty, 11 May 1917.

Admitted to 2nd Australian Field Ambulance, 29 July 1917 (pyrexia, unknown origin); transferred to 18th General Hospital, Camiers, 31 July 1917 (trench fever); to 6th Convalescent Depot, Etaples, 16 August 1917; to 5th Convalescent Depot, 20 August 1917; to 1st Australian Division Base Depot, Havre, 30 August 1917; rejoined 8th Bnm 19 September 1917.

Killed in action, Belgium, 4 October 1917.

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

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