LUNDIE, Arthur Paul
| Service Numbers: | 1135, 1613 |
|---|---|
| Enlisted: | 10 November 1914, Enlisted at Liverpool. |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 13th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Captains Flat, New South Wales, Australia, July 1894 |
| Home Town: | Captains Flat, Palerang, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Railway Permanent Way Labourer |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 8 August 1918 |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France) |
World War 1 Service
| 10 Nov 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1135, 13th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Liverpool. | |
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| 22 Dec 1914: | Involvement Private, 1135, 13th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: '' | |
| 22 Dec 1914: | Embarked Private, 1135, 13th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ulysses, Melbourne | |
| 8 Aug 1918: | Involvement Lance Corporal, 1613, 13th Infantry Battalion, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 1613 awm_unit: 13 Battalion awm_rank: Lance Corporal awm_died_date: 1918-08-08 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by John Oakes
Arthur Paul Lundie (Service Number 1613) was born at Captains Flat about July 1894. He worked in the Permanent Way Secion of the NSW Railways.
When he enlisted at Liverpool on 10th November 1914, his father was deceased and he was unmarried. Therefore he gave his mother as his next of kin.
He embarked HMAT ‘Ulysses’,in December 1914. He was in Egypt by early 1915 and ‘proceeded to join the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force at Gallipoli on 12th April. In August he was hospitalised and then evacuated with varicocele – a swollen blood vessel in the scrotum – to Heliopolis (Egypt). Additionally, he had a wrenched knee. These complaints kept him in Egypt for a year until August 1916. When he reached England, he then spent 118 days at Bulford for treatment for VD. He served at Training Battalions in England.
In July 1917 he went AWL for 18 days, incurring 21 days Field Punishment No. 2 and forfeiting 40 days’ pay. Most of the sentence was remitted. On 3rd September 1917 he at last re-joined the 13th Battalion in France. He was promoted to Lance Corporal.
In April 1918 he was taken to hospital again with Impetigo and Seborrhea (a skin disease)He re-joined the 13th Battalion on 1st August 1918.
He was killed in action a week later. He died quickly and was buried where he fell.
Pte Wm Davidson (5673) reported:
‘On 8-8-18 the Battalion was in front of Morlancourt during the first day of the big advance which ended the war. They hopped over at daylight and about 11.00 a.m. when Lundie was scouting about 100 yards in front of his Platoon and was on top of a big ridge, he was killed outright by a sniper. I was with the Platoon and saw Lundie fall, but could not wait to investigate as I had to keep going. Lundie was probably buried where he was killed.’
As he as no known grave he is remembered at the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, France.
- based on the Australian War Memorial Honour Roll and notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board.