NELMES, Arthur Reginald
| Service Number: | 944 |
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| Enlisted: | 16 February 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 18th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England , November 1879 |
| Home Town: | Leichhardt, Leichhardt, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Boilermaker |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Gallipoli, 22 August 1915 |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Memorialised at Lone Pine Memorial, and Roll of Honour Canberra |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Hamilton St. Peter's Anglican Church Honor Roll, Hamilton Superior Public School Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board, Leichhardt War Memorial, Lone Pine Memorial to the Missing |
World War 1 Service
| 16 Feb 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 944, 18th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 25 Jun 1915: | Embarked AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 944, 18th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Ceramic embarkation_ship_number: A40 public_note: '' | |
| 22 Aug 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 944, 18th Infantry Battalion, The August Offensive - Lone Pine, Suvla Bay, Sari Bair, The Nek and Hill 60 - Gallipoli, KIA at Hill 60 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Steve Larkins
Born in Gloustershire, England to parents Charles and Carrie NELMES. AT the time of enlistment he was married to Edith NELMES, Waratah Road, Broadmeadow, Newcastle New South Wales.
Biography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Memorialised at Sandgate Cemetery.
On the 22nd August 1915, Lance Corporal Arthur Reginald Nelmes, referred to as Reg, 18th Battalion (Reg No-944), boilermaker (Eveleigh Railway Workshops, N.S.W.), father of five (Edith Constance, Alwyn Arthur, Lorna Edith Annie, Reginald Irving, Doris Esme), was Killed in Action at Hill 60, Gallipoli Campaign, age 35. Cause of death not stated.
Arrived in Australia at 3 years of age.
Born at Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England about 1879 to Charles Joseph and Caroline (Carrie) Jane Nelmes nee Warner from Tenterfield, New South Wales; husband of Edith Harriet Nelmes nee Critchley (married 1899, Hamilton, N.S.W. as Harriet E, possibly remarried as Jackson, 1932, Wickham, N.S.W., died 28.12.1954?) of "Josephville", Tudor Street, Hamilton, New South Wales and Waratah Road, Broadmeadow, New South Wales, Reg enlisted on the 16th February 1915 at Liverpool, N.S.W.
Reg’s name has been inscribed on the Lone Pine Memorial (Panel 60), Gallipoli, Turkey.
Mr. Nelmes’s name has also been inscribed on the Hamilton Superior Public School Roll of Honor, Hamilton St. Peter's Anglican Church Honor Roll, St. Peter's Church Memorial Trees, Hamilton, Book of Gold, Leichhardt First World War Memorial, NSW Government Railways and Tramways, First World War Roll of Honour, Central Station, Loco Shop Chullora, Honour Roll 1914-1918 and 1939-1945, Railway Remembrance Wall, Central Station and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall.
Place of Association - Leichhardt, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
An individual Memorial plaque has been placed on The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall, located in the grounds of the cemetery, date and person responsible unknown.
Younger brother Ernest H (born 25.2.1890, Wickham, N.S.W., enlisted 19.7.1915, Liverpool, N.S.W., 30th Battalion, Reg No-725, labourer from Burren Junction, New South Wales, RTA 30.4.1919, 5th Australian Machine Gun Battalion, died?).
https://www.findagrave.com/.../568.../arthur-reginald-nelmes
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered “
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Lest We Forget.
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