HAMBLY, Arthur Norman
| Service Number: | 391 |
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| Enlisted: | 18 August 1914, Brisbane |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 9th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Stawell, Victoria, Australia, 21 September 1885 |
| Home Town: | Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Grocer |
| Died: | War related, Caufield Military Hospital, Caufield, Victoria, Australia, 20 July 1926, aged 40 years |
| Cemetery: |
Box Hill General Cemetery, Victoria |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 18 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 391, 9th Infantry Battalion, Brisbane | |
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| 24 Sep 1914: | Involvement Private, 391, 9th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '9' embarkation_place: Brisbane embarkation_ship: HMAT Omrah embarkation_ship_number: A5 public_note: '' | |
| 24 Sep 1914: | Embarked Private, 391, 9th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Omrah, Brisbane | |
| 19 May 1915: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 391, 9th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, Shrapnel wound left thigh (originally reported right thigh) - severe and dangerously ill. | |
| 23 Aug 1915: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 391, 9th Infantry Battalion, HS Andania, Malta for England - admitted New End Military Hospital, Hampstead. Left leg, below knee amputated 10 December 1915. | |
| 11 Apr 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 391, 9th Infantry Battalion, Transferred from England to Egypt then in HS Kanowana for return to Australia - arriving 15 June 1916. | |
| 5 Jul 1916: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 391, 9th Infantry Battalion, Medically Unfit |
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From How We Served
391 Signaler Arthur Norman Hambly, a grocer, from originally Stawell, in Victoria, who had moved up to Brisbane, Queensland, where he enlisted for War Service on the 18th of August 1914 at the age of 28.
Allocated to the original 9th Battalion 1st AIF. Arthur departed Australia with the First Australian Contingent on the 24th of September and safely arrived in Egypt at the start of December 1914.
Following their initial training in Egypt Arthur was shipped, with his Battalion, to Lemnos Island, for their final training phase in preparations for the pending Dardanelles campaign.
The 9th Battalion would be one of the first Australian units to land at Gallipoli on the 25th of April 1915. Arthur survived the landing unscathed, but in the following month, on the 25th of May, he sustained serious shrapnel wounds to both legs and was evacuated firstly to Mudros Island for urgent hospitalization, before being sent to Malta, and then onto England, where he arrived on the 30th of August 1915.
Arthur would have his left leg under the knee amputated due to the shrapnel wounds he had received on Gallipoli. Following prolonged periods in hospital, he was deemed an invalid and departed England bound for Australia via Egypt on the Hospital Ship "Kanowna' on the 11th of May 1916.
Having arrived back in Australia and being disembarked on the 15th of June, Arthur was again immediately hospitalized and formally discharged from the 1st AIF on the 5th of July 1916 for his re-entry into civilian life.
Following his official discharge from the 1st AIF, Arthur returned to Victoria, where he would require ongoing hospital care at the 11th Australian General Hospital (Caulfield).
On the 20th of July 1926, Arthur would succumb to the effects of his War caused injuries at the premature age of 40.
Following his death Signaler Arthur Hambly, a seriously wounded veteran of the Gallipoli campaign, was formally laid to rest within Box Hill General Cemetery, Victoria.
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