FELTON, Arthur Alfred
| Service Number: | 2482 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 1st Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Darlinghurst, NSW, 11 November 1892 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Chemist |
| Died: | Killed In Action, Strazeele, 17 April 1918, aged 25 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" |
| Memorials: | Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France), Wahroonga St Andrew's Anglican Church WW1 Honour Roll |
World War 1 Service
| 14 Jul 1915: | Involvement Private, 2482, 1st Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Orsova embarkation_ship_number: A67 public_note: '' | |
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| 14 Jul 1915: | Embarked Private, 2482, 1st Infantry Battalion, HMAT Orsova, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of Maurice Ernest Henry Felton, of "Arthursleigh", Junction Rd., Hornsby, New South Wales, and the late Diana Maxfield Felton
The 1915 Sands Directory lists the address as Coonanbarra Road, Wahroonga.
He is commemorated on the Villers Bretonneux memorial, Somme, France, which is the Australian National Memorial erected to commemorate all Australian soldiers who fought in France and Belgium during the First World War, to their dead and especially to those of the dead whose graves are not known. The 10,000 Australian servicemen actually named on the Memorial died on the battlefields of the Somme, Arras, the German advance of 1918 and the Advance to Victory.
On the Wahroonga War Memorial he is shown as having enlisted in 1915. He is also remembered on the Honour Roll of St. Andrews Anglican Church Wahroonga.
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