Arthur Sydney HEWBY

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HEWBY, Arthur Sydney

Service Numbers:	1840, WX8207
Enlisted:	26 April 1916, Second Reinforcements
Last Rank:	Warrant Officer Class 2
Last Unit:	2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion
Born:	GIN GIN, Western Australia, AUSTRALIA, 22 July 1900
Home Town:	Not yet discovered
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Clerk, Publican
Memorials:	Adelaide Elder Smith & Co Limited WW1 Honour Board, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Nedlands Scotch College WW1 Honour Roll, Wagin Roll of Honor

World War 1 Service

26 Apr 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 44th Infantry Battalion, Second Reinforcements
9 Aug 1916:	Involvement Private, 1840, 44th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '18' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Miltiades embarkation_ship_number: A28 public_note: ''
19 Oct 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 44th Infantry Battalion

World War 2 Service

16 Aug 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Warrant Officer Class 2, WX8207, 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion
31 Jan 1946:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Warrant Officer Class 2, WX8207, 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion

HEWBY BROTHERS - WEST AUSTRALIA

Arthur Sydney 'Snow' HEWBY was younger brother to William John HEWBY, KIA WW1 30 May 1916 Fleubaix, France, aged 20 years old.

Snow and Bill attended Scotch College, Perth where they each excelled in sport. In particular Australian Rules Football, Cricket and Bill participated in Rowing.

Their mother Louisa Hewby died in February 1910. Snow and Bill had a younger brother Lionel George Hewby born 1904. Lionel tragically died in 1911 aged 7 years. He had gone to stay with friends in Wagin where he contracted diptheria attending the local school.

Arthur Sydney 'Snow' Hewby played football for Perth Football Club and played in several Western Australian teams, in particular the 1921 the winning team against Victoria.

In August 1940 Snow Hewby enlisted AIF and joined 2/4th Machine Gun Battalion 8th Division - taken POWs of Japan at Singapore 15 February 1942. Snow spent the next 3 1/2 years as a POW in Singapore and the Burma-Thai Railway. He was recovered from Ubon POW Camp, Thailand at the end of the war,

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