MONTGOMERY, Arthur
| Service Number: | 355 |
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| Enlisted: | 22 August 1914 |
| Last Rank: | Lieutenant |
| Last Unit: | 12th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Branxholm, Tasmania, Australia, November 1895 |
| Home Town: | Branxholm, Dorset, Tasmania |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Motor Vehicle Accident, Marrawah, Tasmania, Australia, 27 July 1928 |
| Cemetery: |
Ringarooma Cemetery |
| Memorials: | Lindisfarne Officers of the 12th Battalion Pictorial Honour Roll |
World War 1 Service
| 22 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 355, 12th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 20 Oct 1914: | Involvement Private, 355, 12th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Hobart embarkation_ship: HMAT Geelong embarkation_ship_number: A2 public_note: '' | |
| 20 Oct 1914: | Embarked Private, 355, 12th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Geelong, Hobart | |
| 8 Aug 1915: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 355, 12th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, GSW leg | |
| 24 Apr 1917: | Promoted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 12th Infantry Battalion | |
| 5 May 1917: | Wounded AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 355, 12th Infantry Battalion, Bullecourt (Second), SW Left leg | |
| 29 Sep 1917: | Promoted AIF WW1, Corporal, 12th Infantry Battalion | |
| 14 May 1918: | Promoted AIF WW1, Sergeant, 12th Infantry Battalion | |
| 1 Jun 1918: | Promoted AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant, 12th Infantry Battalion | |
| 25 Jul 1918: | Wounded AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant, 355, 12th Infantry Battalion, SW right hand, left thigh and Right leg. | |
| 10 Aug 1918: | Wounded AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant, 355, 12th Infantry Battalion, Misadventure through 'mis-handelling' of explosive ordinance resulted in amputation of right hand. | |
| 1 Oct 1918: | Promoted AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 12th Infantry Battalion | |
| 3 Apr 1920: | Discharged AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 355, 12th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Arthur was the sixth of seven children of Robert Bertram Eggleton Montgomery (born 1853 in Northumberalnd in England) and his second wife Mary Davis (born 1854 in Gloucestershire, England). Robert, an Ironworks Labourer and Excavator, married Mary at Rangarooma, Tasmania and the marriage was registerd in 1918.
Arthur was a Labourer in Ringarooma, Tasmania in August 1914 when he enlisted with the AIF as a Private (Service No:355) with 12th Infantry Battalion. He was WiA at Gallipoli in 1915, at Bullincourt and Vlangy Fromville in France in 1917, and in 1918 on the Somme - left hand amputated. In August 1918 Arthur was promoted to 2nd Lieutenant and Discharged in April 1920. Brothers Walter (Service No:6885), Wallace (Service No:1162) and Alexander (Alex, Service No:2482), and Brother-in-Law Cyril Conwell Harwood (Service No:468) also served in WWI.
Arthur returned to Tasmania and was working as an when he married Ivy Winifred Harwood (born 1891 in Launceston, Tasmania) in 1923 in Launceston. Arthur and Ivy settled at Marawah in Tasmania and Arthur worked as a Salesman for Jolliffes of Wynyard. He was killed in 1928 when the van he was driving crashed. Ivy later remarried and died in Melbourne, Victoria in 1944.
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