WEDDING, Arthur Herbert
| Service Number: | 3333 |
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| Enlisted: | 2 March 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 43rd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Minlaton, South Australia, June 1891 |
| Home Town: | Port Vincent, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Wheat lumper |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Belgium, 17 October 1917 |
| Cemetery: |
Dochy Farm New British Cemetery |
| Memorials: | Adelaide National War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Minlaton War Memorial WW1, Port Vincent War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 2 Mar 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 32nd Infantry Battalion | |
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| 27 Jun 1916: | Involvement Private, 3333, 32nd Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Malakuta embarkation_ship_number: A57 public_note: '' | |
| 27 Jun 1916: | Embarked Private, 3333, 32nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Malakuta, Adelaide | |
| 20 Apr 1917: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 3333, 43rd Infantry Battalion, GSW arms and buttocks | |
| 17 Oct 1917: | Involvement Private, 3333, 43rd Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 3333 awm_unit: 43rd Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1917-10-17 |
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Arthur Herbert Wedding was born in Minlaton, South Australia in approximately June 1891. He had hazel eyes, brown hair, a medium complexion and was a Evangelical. He lived in Port Vincent before he enlisted, where he was a wheat lumper. He enlisted on 2/3/1916 at 24 years and 9 months, he joined the 33rd Infantry Battalion with the regimental number of 3333. He embarked from Adelaide, South Australia, on board HMAT A57 Malakuta on the 27th June 1916. He then disembarked on Devonport, England on the 22nd August 1916. He the took a train to Larkhill garrison and arrived two days later. He then transferred to the 43rd Infantry Battalion at Codford. He then went to France from Southampton and re-joined the 43rd battalion in a French field on the 26th March 1917. While in battle he got shot in his thighs, arms and buttocks on the 20th April 1917 and returned to England on the 25th April 1917 for treatment. After recovery he returned to Southampton to travel to France arriving on the 11th September 1917. He re-joined the 43rd on the 22nd of September after marching out to them on the 19th of September. He was then killed in action on the 17 October 1917 in a Belgian field. He presumably was killed by a shell, as his father wrote about talking to his friends to his mother.
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