KENTISH, Arthur
| Service Number: | 1772 |
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| Enlisted: | 22 January 1915, Liverpool, New South Wales |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 13th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Lambton, New South Wales, Australia , 13 January 1893 |
| Home Town: | Lambton, Newcastle, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Blacksmith’s striker |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 4 February 1917, aged 24 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Lambton Fallen Soldiers HR, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France) |
World War 1 Service
| 22 Jan 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1772, Liverpool, New South Wales | |
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| 17 Mar 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 1772, 13th Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Shropshire embarkation_ship_number: A9 public_note: '' | |
| 17 Mar 1915: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 1772, 13th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Shropshire, Sydney | |
| 8 Jul 1916: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 1772, 13th Infantry Battalion | |
| 16 Dec 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 1772, 13th Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Ballarat embarkation_ship_number: A70 public_note: '' | |
| 16 Dec 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 1772, 13th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ballarat, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Let us remember two brothers who Fell during The Great War memorialised at Sandgate Cemetery.
On the 4th February 1917, Private Arthur Kentish, 13th Battalion (Reg No-1772), blacksmith's striker (Morison & Bearby Limited), from 83 Young Road, Lambton, New South Wales, was Killed in Action, possibly at the "Stormy Trench" attack at Gueudecourt, Northern France, 1st to the 5th February 1917, age 24.
No Roll of Honour circular submitted.
No Australian Red Cross Wounded and Missing File.
Born at Lambton, New South Wales on the 10th January 1893 to William Richard (died 11.11.1942, Lambton, N.S.W., age 84) from 83 Young Road, Lambton, New South Wales, and Rosannah Kentish nee Cock (Roseanna, Rosanna, died 20.4.1944, Lambton, N.S.W., age 80, mother of 12) from 83 Young Road, Lambton, New South Wales, Arthur enlisted on the 22nd January 1915 with the 13th Battalion, 4th Reinf. at Liverpool, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A9 Shropshire on the 17th March 1915.
A report of a farewell and presentation of gifts to Arthur and fellow employees of Morison & Bearby Limited at the Wickham School of Arts.
Admitted to hospital 28.6.1915 (myalgia), 19.7.1915 (dysentery, slight).
Returned to Australia-7.9.1915, (gastro enteritis debility).
There is a report that Arthur had arrived home invalided from the Dardanelles with gastritis and would return to the front as soon as the doctors would let him.
Returned to duty 22.10.1915.
Re-embarked -16.2.1916, (13th Battalion, 14th Reinf.).
A report of a letter sent home from Walter Dorman Bartley (1st Divisional Motor Transport Company, Reg No-9482, bookkeeper from 20 Tyrrell Street, Newcastle, New South Wales and 58 Upper Perkins Street, Newcastle, N.S.W., RTA 10.9.1919, died 9.3.1924, age 33, resting at Sandgate Cemetery - METHODIST 1 (WESLEYAN) H SE. 51. Gary Mitchell submitted an application to DVA July 2023 asking for a Commonwealth War Graves Plaque to be placed at the gravesite, unfortunately declined July 2023) that Arthur had re-embarked and was also on his way to the front.
Wounded in action - 8.7.1916 (GSW shoulder, severe).
Mr. Kentish’s name has been inscribed on the Australian National Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, France.
Place of Association - Lambton, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.
Arthur’s name has also been inscribed on the Lambton and New Lambton Municipal District Roll of Honor, Lambton Park Citizens' Memorial Gates, Lambton Post Office Roll of Honor, Waratah Superior Public School Roll of Honour, Lambton Rose of Australia Lodge Independent Order of Oddfellows Roll of Honour, and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall. Name not inscribed on the Morison & Bearby Limited Roll of Honour.
I have placed poppies at the memorialised Kentish gravesite in remembrance of the service and supreme sacrifice of their 2 sons for God, King & Country. METHODIST 1 (WESLEYAN) E SW. 22.
3 brothers served 1st A.I.F.
Younger brother Alfred (born 26.8.1897, Lambton, New South Wales, driver (Hexham J & A Brown Workshops), from 83 Young Road, Lambton, New South Wales, enlisted 14.8.1915, 2nd Battalion, Reg No-4813, KIA 19.7.1916, Battle of Fromelles, 54th Battalion, age 18 years 10 months, name inscribed on the VC Corner Australian Cemetery and Memorial, Fromelles, France. Panel 10), memorialised same location.
Older brother James Edward (born 19.2.1889, West Maitland, New South Wales, railway porter from Werris Creek, New South Wales, enlisted 13.11.1915, 1st ANZAC Battalion, Imperial Camel Corps, Reg No-1100, RTA 20.12.1917, died 29.6.1943, Rozelle, N.S.W., age-54, privately interred Rookwood Cemetery, officially commemorated - https://connect.dva.gov.au/.../viewCommemoration.html...), memorialised same location.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered“.
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/.
Lest We Forget.
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