OLIVER, Arthur Davis
| Service Number: | 23109 |
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| Enlisted: | 18 January 1916, 12 years 4th A&Regiment |
| Last Rank: | Gunner |
| Last Unit: | 3rd Divisional Ammunition Column |
| Born: | Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, 25 August 1886 |
| Home Town: | Toowoomba, Toowoomba, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Plumber |
| Died: | 9 October 1966, aged 80 years, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW CONGREGATIONAL-4CSE. 55. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 18 Jan 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Gunner, 23109, 9th Field Artillery Brigade , 12 years 4th A&Regiment | |
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| 11 May 1916: | Involvement Gunner, 23109, 9th Field Artillery Brigade , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '4' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Argyllshire embarkation_ship_number: A8 public_note: '' | |
| 11 May 1916: | Embarked Gunner, 23109, 9th Field Artillery Brigade , HMAT Argyllshire, Sydney | |
| 6 Oct 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Gunner, 3rd Divisional Ammunition Column | |
| 8 May 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Gunner, 23109, 3rd Divisional Ammunition Column, 1st MD | |
| Date unknown: | Involvement Gunner, 23109, 9th Field Artillery Brigade , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '4' embarkation_place: '' embarkation_ship: '' embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
| Date unknown: | Embarked Gunner, 23109, 9th Field Artillery Brigade |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served and suffered during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
55 years ago today, on the 12th October 1966, Gunner Arthur Davis Oliver, 9th Australian Field Artillery Brigade (Reg No-23109), plumber and sheet metal worker from Neil Street, Toowoomba, Queensland and Newcastle? N.S.W., was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 80. CONGREGATIONAL-4CSE. 55.
Born at Newcastle, New South Wales on the 25th August 1886 to Benjamin Joseph B and Francis Ellen Oliver of Everton Street, Hamilton, New South Wales, Arthur enlisted January 1916 at Toowoomba, Queensland.
Admitted to hospital 11.10.1916 (fractured clavicle), 12.2.1917 (lumbago), 3.4.1917 (abscess right elbow), 18.6.1918 (old fractured shoulder, periostitis of shoulder region).
Reenlisted 15.3.1920, Australian Air Corps (sheet metal worker) at the Central Flying School, Laverton, Western Australia. Discharged (Sergeant) 22.6.1920.
Arthur’s name has not been inscribed on the family headstone, so May 2021 I placed a cross adorned with poppies on the gravesite, taken a photo of the grave and uploaded the photo onto the Northern Cemetery website as a permanent record of his service.
I would certainly appreciate contact with descendants for more information and photos of this Forgotten WW1 Hero.
Lest We Forget.
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