Arthur DAVEY

DAVEY, Arthur

    Service Number: 1665
    Enlisted: 5 February 1916
    Last Rank: Private
    Last Unit: 50th Infantry Battalion
    Born: Terowie, South Australia, 26 April 1887
    Home Town: Terowie, Goyder, South Australia
    Schooling: Not yet discovered
    Occupation: Farm Labourer
    Died: Killed in Action, Pozieres, France, Belgium, 9 June 1917, aged 30 years
    Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
    Panel 29, Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium
    Memorials: Adelaide National War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Mannanarie Roll of Honor WW1, Menin Gate Memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing of the Ypres Salient), Orroroo District Roll of Honour WW1, Peterborough Public School Honour Board WW1, Terowie Institute Honour Board, Terowie Public School Honor Roll
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    World War 1 Service

    5 Feb 1916: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1665, 50th Infantry Battalion
    11 Apr 1916: Involvement Private, 1665, 50th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '19' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Aeneas embarkation_ship_number: A60 public_note: ''
    11 Apr 1916: Embarked Private, 1665, 50th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Aeneas, Adelaide

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    Biography

    Rootsweb ID: I410327 Birth Record 26 Apr 1887 in Terowie, South Australia

    Father William DAVEY (b.12/12/1853 SA - d.23/5/1937 in Mile End, SA)
    1st marriage: 7/12/1876 in Mannanarie, SA
               Alice ROBINSON  (b: 24/2/1857 in Black Springs, SA - d.29/8/1879 in Walloway, SA)
    Sibling:
    Frederick William Clark Wilkins DAVEY b: 19/10/1878 in Orroroo, SA

    2nd marriage:  26/6/1882 in Saddleworth, SA
    Mother: Lucy Jane TALL (b: 23/4/1861 in Willunga, SA - d.19/3/1949 Mile End SA)

    Siblings:
    Alfred Ernest DAVEY  b: 28/4/1883 in Terowie, SA
    Alice DAVEY   b: 10/11/1884 in Terowie, SA
    Arthur DAVEY   b: 26/4/1887 in Terowie, SA
    Lilly DAVEY   b: 2/5/1889 in Terowie, SA
    Emma DAVEY   b: 7/5/1891 in Terowie, SA
    Amy DAVEY   b: 31/3/1895 in Terowie, SA
    William DAVEY   b: 18/3/1897 in Terowie, SA
    Florence DAVEY   b: 14/4/1900 in Terowie, SA
    Archibald Colin DAVEY   b: 14/1/1902 in Terowie, SA
    Jack DAVEY   b: 19/2/1904 in Terowie, SA

    Brother:  2521  Private William Davey
                    48th Battalion
                    28/7/1916  enlisted
                    28/8/1916  embarked from Port Adelaide, SA onboard HMAT A68 Anchises
                    19/2/1919  returned to Australia
                    30/9/1976  passed away - cremated in Centennial Park Cemetery

    Cousin:  9 Allan Isaac Davey
                  21/7/1915 enlisted
                  18/11/1915  embarked from Port Adelaide, SA, onboard HMAT A2 Geelong
                  as a Sergeant in 32nd Battalion, A Company
                  2nd Lieutenant in 32nd Battalion
                  22/10/1917  killed in Action, Zillebeke
                  buried in:  Hoogee Crate Cemetery, Passchendaele, Flanders, Belgium
                                  Plot: IV; Row: A; Grave: 2.

    Cousin:    4718 Horace Dearlove Edward Davey
                   6/5/1915  enlisted
                   Private in Australian General Hospital 3, Reinforcement 1
                   15/6/1915  embarked from Port of Melbourne, VIC onboard HMAT A62 Wandilla
                   12/11/1916 returned to Australia onboard HT Wilstsire
                   27/3/1917  embarked onbaord Militiades to England
                   4/10/1917  gun shot wound right arm and leg (severe)
                   24/1/1918  returned to Australia onboard HS Dunluce Castle
                   12/9/1918  discharged from service

    Descibed on enlisting as 28yrs 11mth old; single; 5' 10.5" tall; 168 lbs;
    fresh complexion; hazel eyes; brown hair; Methodist

    15/2/1916      enlisted in Adelaide

    20/3/1916      appointed to B Company, 2nd Depot Battaliion

    1/4/1916        Mitcham Camp

    11/4/1916      embarked from Port Adelaide, SA, onboard HMAT A60 Aeneas
                         as a Private in 50th Battalion, 2nd Reinforcement

    27/5/1916      proceeded to join 50th Battalion, Tel-el-Kebir
    30/5/1916      taken on strength Railhead

    30/5/1916      13th Training Battalion, transferred to 50th Battalion

    5/6/1915        proceeded overseas to join British Expeditionary Forces, Alexandria
                         embarked onboard HMT Arcadian
    12/6/1916      disembarked into Marseilles, France

    14/8/1916      gun shot wound right leg, Wimereux, France
                         admitted 8th Stationary Hospital, Wimereux, France
    29/8/1916      transferred to 1st Convalescent Depot, Boulogne, France
    5/9/1916        discharged to 4th Australian Division Base details, Etaples, France

    24/9/1916      rejoined 50th Battalion, France

    9/6/1917        killed in action, France
                         "stated as buried:  3/4 mile Nth-East of Messines"
                         NO KNOWN GRAVE

    His name is commemorated on Panel 29 at The Ypres MENIN GATE Memorial, Belgium.

    His name is commemorated on Panel 150 at the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT.

    Medals:         British War medal (37741), Victory medal (37434)
                        Memorial Plaque and Scroll (325616)

    Sourced and submitted by Julianne T Ryan.  19/5/2016.  Lest we forget.

    Thank you to Kaye Bottrall, Jamestown, SA for her information.

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