Arthur Pearson HOOPER

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HOOPER, Arthur Pearson

Service Number:	4050
Enlisted:	1 September 1915
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	47th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Millthorpe, New South Wales, Australia, 1894
Home Town:	Wilmot, Kentish, Tasmania
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Bank Clerk
Died:	Killed in action, Wytschaete, Belgium, 19 August 1917
Cemetery:	Derry House Cemetery No.2 Plot II, Row A, Grave No. 2.
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Kentish Municipality Honour Roll Mural, Latrobe War Memorial, Sheffield War Memorial

World War 1 Service

1 Sep 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4050, 15th Infantry Battalion
24 Nov 1915:	Involvement Private, 4050, 15th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: RMS Orontes embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: ''
24 Nov 1915:	Embarked Private, 4050, 15th Infantry Battalion, RMS Orontes, Melbourne
9 Mar 1916:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 47th Infantry Battalion

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Biography contributed by Stephen Brooks

Arthur was the son of William and Elizabeth Jane Hooper, of Smithton, Tasmania. He was working as a clerk in the National Bank at Sheffield, Tasmania when he enlisted. Arthur joined the 47th Battalion in Egypt prior to going to the Western Front. He was badly wounded at Pozieres on 12 August 1916, and evacuated to England with gunshot wounds to the buttocks and legs. He spent nearly 6 months in England recovering.

He was killed in action at Wytschaete in Belgium, behind the lines, when a high velocity shell struck the billet where he was playing cards. Six others of the battalion were reported to have been killed by the same shell.

His father was a Methodist minister in Tasmania during the war and had endured the responsibility of informing family of the death of their serving soldiers many times. He himself was informed by another minister of the Methodist church.

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