Arthur Wellesley DREVES

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DREVES, Arthur Wellesley

Service Number:	114
Enlisted:	17 August 1914, Enlisted at Sydney, NSW
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	3rd Infantry Battalion
Born:	Annandale, New South Wales, Australia, 11 July 1886
Home Town:	Annandale, Leichhardt, New South Wales
Schooling:	Annandale Public School, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation:	Fettler
Died:	Killed in Action, Gallipoli, Turkey, 5 May 1915, aged 28 years
Cemetery:	4th Battalion Parade Ground Cemetery Row B, Grave 17 Headstone inscription: In loving memory his sun went down whilst yet it was day,
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board, Leichhardt War Memorial

World War 1 Service

17 Aug 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 114, Enlisted at Sydney, NSW
20 Oct 1914:	Involvement Private, 114, 3rd Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: ''
20 Oct 1914:	Embarked Private, 114, 3rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Euripides, Sydney
25 Apr 1915:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 114, 3rd Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli
5 May 1915:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 114, 3rd Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli

Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board

Arthur Wellesley DREVES, (Service Number 114) was born on 11 July 1886 at Annandale and began working for the NSW in the Permanent Way Branch as a casual on 1 December 1912, becoming permanent by the next June. He was released to join the Expeditionary Forces in October 1914. In accordance with NSW government policy any difference between his military pay and his Departmental pay was made up, and a note on his card records that this cash was to be paid to his sister Millie Clark, for the benefit of their mother.

Biography contributed by Carol Foster

Son of Albert Harrison Dreves and Maria Dreves of 3 Searle Street, Leichhardt, NSW. Brother of Millie Clark nee Dreves

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

Previously served with St. Georges Rifles, Leichhardt, NSW

Biography contributed by John Oakes

Arthur Wellesley DREVES (Service Number 114) was born on 11th July 1886 at Annandale. He began working for the NSW Railways in the Permanent Way Branch as a casual on 1st December 1912. He had permanent by the next June. He was released to join the Expeditionary Forces in October 1914. In accordance with NSW government policy any difference between his military pay and his Departmental pay was made up. A note on his card records that this cash was to be paid to his sister Millie Clark, for the benefit of their mother.

He was killed in action at the Dardanelles on 5th May 1915. At first, he was buried in an isolated grave 15 yards off the south side of Bridges Road, 120 yards from Pine, head of Gully, about one mile North North East of Anzac Cove. In all cases where members of the Australian Imperial Force had been buried in isolated graves their remains were exhumed and re-interred in the nearest Military Cemetery. ‘This work was carried out with every measure of care and reverence in the presence of a Chaplain’.

- based on notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board

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