TREBLE, Arthur Gilbert
| Service Number: | 973 |
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| Enlisted: | 10 July 1915, Enlisted in Melbourne |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 31st Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Kingower, Victoria, Australia, 14 September 1884 |
| Home Town: | Dunolly, Central Goldfields, Victoria |
| Schooling: | State School, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | Pipe-moulder |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Fromelles, France, 20 August 1916, aged 31 years |
| Cemetery: |
VC Corner Cemetery and Memorial, Fromelles, France Panel 3, VC Corner Australian Cemetery and Memorial, Fromelles, Lille, Nord Pas de Calais, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Dunolly Bromley School No 35 & District Honor Roll Great European War, Dunolly Great War Memorial, V.C. Corner Australian Cemetery Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 10 Jul 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 973, Enlisted in Melbourne | |
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| 9 Nov 1915: | Involvement Private, 973, 31st Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Wandilla embarkation_ship_number: A62 public_note: '' | |
| 9 Nov 1915: | Embarked Private, 973, 31st Infantry Battalion, HMAT Wandilla, Melbourne | |
| 20 Aug 1916: | Involvement Corporal, 973, 31st Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 973 awm_unit: 31st Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Corporal awm_died_date: 1916-08-20 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Carol Foster
7 December 1915 - Disembarked at Suez
23 December 1915 - Appointer Lance Corporal
3 April 1916 - Promoted to Corporal
Medals: 1914-15 Star, Biritsh War Medal, Victory Medal
Biography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Arthur Gilbert Treble was reported wounded in action, 20 July 1916; subsequently reported missing in action, 20 July 1916, and buried 'in the vicinity of Fleurbaix'.
At a Court of Enquiry, held in the field, 1 August 1917, he was pronounced fate as 'Killed in Action, 20 July 1916'.
There were a couple of witnesses in Arthur Gilbert Treble’s Red Cross file who stated they saw him killed at Fromelles (Fleurbaix).
His younger brother, 1248 Pte. George Treble 29th Battalion AIF, had also been killed in action 2 March, 1917, aged 26.
They were the sons of Arthur Richard and Ellen Treble, of Bromley, Victoria. Arthur’s place of association was Dunolly, Victoria.
The mother Mrs. Ellen Treble wrote one letter to Base records regarding her still missing son Arthur Gilbert Treble on 27 August 1916.
“I have had word from the (Red Cross) he was seen fall at Fleurs if so why has all his effects never came over before now and you have never sent me any word direct or how he came by his death if he is gone, …I do not know what to think, I have not got his deferred pay, nor my poor son George’s, both gave their life that shirkers may live in luxury, God help us poor mothers.”