Arthur George ANSON

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ANSON, Arthur George

Service Number:	6276
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	22nd Infantry Battalion
Born:	Purnim, Victoria, Australia, 1 January 1896
Home Town:	Timboon, Corangamite, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Killed in Action, Belgium, 4 October 1917, aged 21 years
Cemetery:	Buttes New British Cemetery, Polygon Wood Buttes New British Cemetery, Polygon Wood, Zonnebeke, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Timboon Honor Roll, Timboon Honor Roll

World War 1 Service

23 Nov 1916:	Involvement Private, 6276, 22nd Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '14' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Hororata embarkation_ship_number: A20 public_note: ''
23 Nov 1916:	Embarked Private, 6276, 22nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Hororata, Melbourne
Date unknown:	Involvement Private, 6276, 22 Infantry Battalion AMF

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Biography contributed by Robert Kearney

Listed in the Timboon Honour Roll.
Arthur's Platoon Comrade, H.J.A. Bennett confirmed his death saying "......He was killed alongside of me. I am quite certain of this, he was lying in the same shell hole same and I tried to wake him, thinking he was asleep"

Arthur was the son of James and Christina (McQuarrie) Anson, whose address was given as Timboon on his record.

Courtesy of James Affleck and Peter Younes.

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