MASON, Arthur Gregory
| Service Number: | 4235 |
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| Enlisted: | 25 January 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 3rd Tunnelling Company (inc. 6th Tunnelling Company) |
| Born: | Wellington, NSW, 1872 |
| Home Town: | Claremont, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Surveyor |
| Died: | Perth, WA, 7 September 1925, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia |
| Memorials: | Midland Officers & Contract Surveyors of the Department of Lands & Surveys WA Honour Roll |
World War 1 Service
| 25 Jan 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Corporal, 4235, 3rd Tunnelling Company (inc. 6th Tunnelling Company) | |
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| 1 Jun 1916: | Involvement Corporal, 4235, 1st Tunnelling Company (inc. 4th Tunnelling Company), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Warilda embarkation_ship_number: A69 public_note: '' | |
| 1 Jun 1916: | Involvement Corporal, 4235, 3rd Tunnelling Company (inc. 6th Tunnelling Company), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Warilda embarkation_ship_number: A69 public_note: '' | |
| 1 Jun 1916: | Embarked Corporal, 4235, 3rd Tunnelling Company (inc. 6th Tunnelling Company), HMAT Warilda, Fremantle | |
| 1 Jun 1916: | Embarked Corporal, 4235, 1st Tunnelling Company (inc. 4th Tunnelling Company), HMAT Warilda, Fremantle |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
OBITUARY.
Mr. Arthur Gregory Mason, surveyor and explorer, died in the repatriation ward of the Perth Hospital, on Sunday. Mr. Mason was one of the pioneers of the trans-Australian journey from the Western Australia end, and the route of the great western railway follows very closely the greater part of the track taken by him. He reported, after the journey from Kurnalpi to Euda in 1896, that the railway could be constructed at the very, cheapest rate owing to tho level country. His party was very close to death on two occasions on that trip, once by raiding blacks who stole their camels, and once from thirst. One of the party of three went mad. They killed their dog and ate him. They also consumed pigface weed and licked the dew off the herbage their mouths bleeding from the sharp edges. Late on the sixth day, after a walk of 160 miles, when they had abandoned all hope, they found a small gnammna hole, with four gallons of water, which saved them. Mr. Mason, who was 68 years of age, served in the A.I.F.
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