REEDY, Arthur Ambrose
| Service Number: | 2220 |
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| Enlisted: | 14 April 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 3rd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Tamworth, New South Wales, Australia, 1896 |
| Home Town: | Croydon, Ashfield, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Bricklayer |
| Died: | Killed in action, Pozieres, France, 22 July 1916 |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France. |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 14 Apr 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2220, 3rd Infantry Battalion | |
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| 16 Jun 1915: | Involvement Private, 2220, 3rd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Karoola embarkation_ship_number: A63 public_note: '' | |
| 16 Jun 1915: | Embarked Private, 2220, 3rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Karoola, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Arthur was one of three brothers who enlisted and served overseas during WW1, all sons of Camden born Roger and Ann Reedy. Only one returned to Australia. The Reedy family lived in Camden, before relocating to Ashfield and Croydon.
Arthur’s younger brother, 6886 Pte. John Vincent Reedy 8th Battalion AIF, was killed in action in Belgium on 25 October 1917, aged 19.
Arthur was working as a brick layer when he signed on in Liverpool on 14 April 1915. He was made a Private with the 3rd Battalion, and sent overseas from Sydney on the 16 June 1915.
Arthur was quickly transported to the Gallipoli Peninsula on the 4 August 1915. He joined the 3rd Battalion as they attacked the Turkish trenches at Lone Pine. Surviving the carnage in one of the most ferocious fights of the Australians endured in their time at Gallipoli was a feat in itself. Arthur was evacuated to Mudros on Lemnos Island, after nine days at Gallipoli, on 13 August 1915, suffering from influenza. During late September, he was taken to the 3rd Australian General Hospital in Egypt. The infection grew worse, and he was taken to England in late November, to Brook War Hospital.
Arthur returned to Egypt in March 1916, and a few weeks later, travelled with the 3rd Battalion to the Western Front in France. Arthur was killed during the heavy fighting which took place in attacking the village of Pozieres, and like many others, no one knows happened to him and his body was lost. He had taken part in two of the hardest battles of the AIF thus far in the war, Lone Pine and Pozieres.
Another older brother Roger Patrick Reedy (b. Camden 1891) served in the 7th Company Australian Army Service Corps AIF at Gallipoli and in France and returned to Australia in 1918, on the orders of the GOC AIF, General Birdwood.
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