Arnold Cecil CARR

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Service Number:	1798
Enlisted:	1 April 1916, Place of Enlistment, Cairns, Queensland.
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	41st Infantry Battalion
Born:	Carrington, Herberton, Queensland, Australia, 25 August 1886
Home Town:	Cairns, Cairns, Queensland
Schooling:	Herberton State School, Herberton, Queensland, Australia
Occupation:	Miner
Died:	Killed in Action, Belgium, 5 October 1917, aged 31 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Commemorated on The Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Belgium. , Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium, Tyne Cot Cemetery, Passchendaele, Flanders, Belgium
Memorials:	Aloomba School WW1 Roll of Honor, Aloomba School and Comrades Roll of Honor, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Brisbane 41st Battalion Roll of Honour, Gordonvale War Memorial, Herberton War Memorial, Menin Gate Memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing of the Ypres Salient)

1 Apr 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1798, 41st Infantry Battalion, Place of Enlistment, Cairns, Queensland.
16 Aug 1916:	Involvement Private, 1798, 41st Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '18' embarkation_place: Brisbane embarkation_ship: HMAT Boorara embarkation_ship_number: A42 public_note: ''
16 Aug 1916:	Embarked Private, 1798, 41st Infantry Battalion, HMAT Boorara, Brisbane

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