Archibald James HUTCHISON

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HUTCHISON, Archibald James

Service Number:	231
Enlisted:	20 August 1914, Enlisted at Mebourne
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	7th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, 1890
Home Town:	Cascades, Hobart, Tasmania
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Hairdresser
Died:	Killed in Action, Gallipoli, Gallipoli, Dardanelles, Turkey, 25 April 1915
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Lone Pine Memorial Panel 29, Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Hobart All Saints Church Honour Roll, Hobart Roll of Honour, Lone Pine Memorial to the Missing

World War 1 Service

20 Aug 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 231, 7th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Mebourne
19 Oct 1914:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 231, 7th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '9' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Hororata embarkation_ship_number: A20 public_note: ''
12 Apr 1915:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 231, 7th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, Embarked from Egypt for Gallipoli on 12 April staged at Lemnos KIA at the North Beach landing 25 Apr 1915

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Biography contributed by Carol Foster

True name Archibald James Hutchison

Son of Thomas and Isabella Hutchison of Wellsey Street, Cascades, Tasmania. Brother of Isabella Watkins nee Hutchison of South Hobart, Tasmania

Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

Also served in the cadets

Served a 4 year apprenticeship with B.W. Salter of Hobart, Tasmania

Biography contributed by Stephen Brooks

53 Private C.H. Middleton 7th Battalion AIF gave a report saying “I asked after casualty on the Thursday after the landing, and the casualty’s mate told the informant that Hutchinson was killed in the boat during the landing.”

Hutchison was not pronounced as killed in action until a Court of Enquiry was held by his Battalion 5 September 1917, almost 2 and a half years after the event. His family had to endure he was missing for that long.

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