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MILLHOUSE, Arthur Pitman
| Service Number: | 4322 |
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| Enlisted: | 3 October 1916, Adelaide, SA |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 32nd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Mount Gambier, South Australia, Australia, 27 July 1894 |
| Home Town: | Norwood (SA), South Australia |
| Schooling: | Mount Gambier High School |
| Occupation: | Printer |
| Died: | 24 December 1963, aged 69 years, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Woden (Canberra) Public Cemetery, ACT H-EX-B-043 |
| Memorials: | Mount Gambier High School Great War Roll of Honor, Yorketown and District of Melville Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 3 Oct 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4322, 32nd Infantry Battalion, Adelaide, SA | |
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| 7 Nov 1916: | Involvement Private, 4322, 32nd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Afric embarkation_ship_number: A19 public_note: '' | |
| 7 Nov 1916: | Embarked Private, 4322, 32nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Afric, Adelaide |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Graeme Roulstone
4322 Arthur Pitman MILLHOUSE was born at Mount Gambier on 27 July 1894. He was enrolled at Mount Gambier High School by his father, Robert Millhouse, a blacksmith, of Commercial Street, Mount Gambier, on 20 January 1908. He left the school on 22 December 1909.
He enlisted in Adelaide on 30 October 1916 (22, painter, married, Methodist) naming his wife, Mrs Polly Millhouse of Mount Gambier, as his next of kin. He embarked from Adelaide on the ‘Afric’ on 7 November 1916, disembarked at Plymouth in England on 9 January 1917 and was attached to the 8th Training Battalion.
He was sent overseas to France on 5 April 1917 and joined the 32nd Battalion on 12 April, participating in the Battle of Polygon Wood in Belgium on 26 September 1917 before being hospitalised with cellulitis in the right hand from 18 to 30 October 1917, re-joining his unit on 5 November. He was hospitalised with trench fever on 18 January 1918, evacuated to England on 20 February and discharged on 5 April. He returned to France on 19 June, passing through the Australian Divisional Base Depot at Havre before re-joining his unit on 25 June. He was granted leave to England from 4 to 22 February 1919 and on his return was seconded to the 5th Division Salvage Unit from 26 February to 15 April. He left France in May 1919 and departed England for return to Australia on 5 July 1919 on board the ‘Port Melbourne’. He disembarked on 18 August and was discharged on 25 September.
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