Arthur Walter FIELDING

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FIELDING, Arthur Walter

Service Number:	SX5271
Enlisted:	14 June 1940, Adelaide, SA
Last Rank:	Captain
Last Unit:	2nd/7th Field Regiment
Born:	Adelaide, South Australia, 1 March 1913
Home Town:	Walkerville, South Australia
Schooling:	Adelaide Technical High School, Pulteney Grammar School, Adelaide Univeristy
Occupation:	Assistant Superintendent of the Ade laide Electric Supply Company
Died:	Killed in Action, Egypt, 27 July 1942, aged 29 years
Cemetery:	El Alamein War Cemetery AIF 22
Memorials:	Adelaide Technical High School Old Scholars WW2 Honour Roll, Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

World War 2 Service

14 Jun 1940:	Enlisted Adelaide, SA
14 Jun 1940:	Enlisted SX5271, 2nd/7th Field Regiment
27 Jul 1942:	Involvement Captain, SX5271, 2nd/7th Field Regiment
Date unknown:	Involvement

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of Edwin Walter and Ethel Mary Fielding of Bridgewater, Sa.

Husband of Noma Christina Fielding, of 7 Wolsden street, North Walkerville, South Australia.

B. Eng. (Adelaide).

Educated at Pulteney Grammar and Adelaide Technical High Schools he went onto Adelaide University and won the Angus Engineering Exhibition and graduated B.E. in 1933. Interested in rifle shooting and tennis he was an Electrical Engineer in civilian life and when he enlisted in July 1940 was employed by the Adelaide Electric Supply Company. He was killed in action in Egypt on 27th July 1942.

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