GREAVES, Arthur
| Service Number: | 1085 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 19th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Tilbury, Essex, United Kingdom, 1892 |
| Home Town: | Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Died of wounds, France, 26 July 1916 |
| Cemetery: |
Warloy-Baillon Communal Cemetery Extension Grave V. B. 26., Warloy-Baillon Communal Cemetery Extension, Warloy-Baillon, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 25 Jun 1915: | Involvement Private, 1085, 19th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '13' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ceramic embarkation_ship_number: A40 public_note: '' | |
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| 25 Jun 1915: | Embarked Private, 1085, 19th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ceramic, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
His birth was registered in Orsett which registration district covered Tilbury in those days.
Births Mar 1892 Greaves Arthur Orsett 4a 444
On the 1901 census for 24 Toronto Road, Tilbury, Arthur was shown as 6 years old and the eldest of the three children of Arthur and Mary.
He was 24 and the son of Mary Ann E. V. Greaves [nee Dawson] and the late Arthur Greaves, of 9, Sydney Rd., Tilbury Docks, Essex, England. They married locally in 1891; Mary passed away, aged 78 in 1950. He had been wounded at Gallipoli in 1915.In the issue of 26th August 1916, the Grays and Tilbury Gazette recorded that Arthur had been felled in the great advance
In the United Kingdom, he is commemorated on the Tilbury War Memorial in Civic Square, Tilbury, Essex and on the war memorial in St John’s church, Dock Road, Tilbury.
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