Arthur Henry DUNKLEY

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DUNKLEY, Arthur Henry

Service Number:	654
Enlisted:	24 September 1914, Enlisted at Blackboy Hill, WA
Last Rank:	Lance Corporal
Last Unit:	16th Infantry Battalion (WW1)
Born:	Brighton, Victoria, Australia, June 1871
Home Town:	Perth, Western Australia
Schooling:	Brighton State School, Victoria, Australia
Occupation:	Mill Hand
Died:	Killed in Action, Gallipoli, Gallipoli, Dardanelles, Turkey, 9 May 1915
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli Panel 51, Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Hampton RSL Gallipoli Memorial Gardens, Lone Pine Memorial to the Missing

World War 1 Service

24 Sep 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 654, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), Enlisted at Blackboy Hill, WA
22 Dec 1914:	Involvement Private, 654, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ceramic embarkation_ship_number: A40 public_note: ''
22 Dec 1914:	Embarked Private, 654, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), HMAT Ceramic, Melbourne
15 Apr 1915:	Promoted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1)
9 May 1915:	Involvement Lance Corporal, 654, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 654 awm_unit: 16 Battalion awm_rank: Lance Corporal awm_died_date: 1915-05-09

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Biography contributed by Carol Foster

Birth name Arthur Henry Dunkley

Son of Thomas Dunkley and Ellen Dunkley nee Harbrow of Brighton, Victoria. Brother of James Albert Dunkley

Husband of Ellen Margaret Dunkley of 63 Newcastle Street, Perth, WA. Father of Gladys Violet Dunkley

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

At the time of enlistment he was emplyed by Perth Crossland Forestry Company of Perth, WA. Prior to that he had been a police officer

He had previously served with the Victorian Volunteer Ranges and a memer of the Mounted Rifles

Biography contributed by Evan Evans

From Gallipoli, 1915

Pte. Arthur Dunkley, 16th Battalion Australian Infantry, was killed at Quinn's Post on 2nd May 1915. His photograph was published on 30th July 1915. [1]
“DUNKLEY. — On May 9 [2] in action at Quinn's Post, Dardanelles, Corporal A. H. Dunkley, Transport 16th Battalion (ex-police constable), beloved husband of E. M. DunkIey, 63 Newcastle-street. Perth, loving father of Leonard (at present at Blackboy Hill) and Gladys Dunkley. Deeply mourned. He died for his country.” [3]

Commemorated on the Lone Pine Memorial, the former mill hand was the 43 year-old son of Thomas and Ellen Dunkley, husband of Ellen Margaret Dunkley, of 63 Newcastle Street, Perth, Western Australia; originally of Brighton, Victoria.

[1] 'The Western Mail' (Perth, Western Australia), 30th July 1915.
[2] All official records date his death to 2nd May 1915.
[3] 'The West Australian' (Perth, Western Australia), 21st July 1915.

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