NOTMAN, Arthur
| Service Number: | 2619 |
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| Enlisted: | 15 June 1916, Melbourne, Vic. |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 3rd Pioneer Battalion |
| Born: | Clunes, Victoria, Australia, 1892 |
| Home Town: | Daylesford, Hepburn, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Miner |
| Memorials: | Clunes Soldiers Pictorial Honour Roll |
World War 1 Service
| 15 Jun 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2619, 3rd Pioneer Battalion, Melbourne, Vic. | |
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| 21 Oct 1916: | Involvement Private, 2619, 3rd Pioneer Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '5' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Port Melbourne embarkation_ship_number: A16 public_note: '' | |
| 21 Oct 1916: | Embarked Private, 2619, 3rd Pioneer Battalion, HMAT Port Melbourne, Melbourne | |
| 7 Jun 1917: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 2619, 3rd Pioneer Battalion, Battle of Messines | |
| 4 Oct 1917: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 2619, 3rd Pioneer Battalion, Broodseinde Ridge | |
| 1 Apr 1918: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 2619, 3rd Pioneer Battalion, German Spring Offensive 1918 | |
| 4 Jul 1918: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 2619, 3rd Pioneer Battalion, Le Hamel - Blueprint for Victory | |
| 8 Aug 1918: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 2619, 3rd Pioneer Battalion, The Battle of Amiens | |
| 30 Sep 1918: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 2619, 3rd Pioneer Battalion, Breaching the Hindenburg Line - Cambrai / St Quentin Canal | |
| 6 Aug 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 2619, 3rd Pioneer Battalion, RTA 12 May 1919 and discharged (TPE). |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Robert Wight
Arthur Notman, aged almost 24, enlisted in the AIF in Melbourne on 15 June 1916. He embarked overseas on 21 October and arrived in England on 28 December 1916, where he spent the next three months training at the Larkhill Camp in Wiltshire.
He left England and arrived in France on 11 April 1917, where he joined his battalion on 1 May 1917. He was soon into action, initially at the Battle of Messines on 7 June 1917, and then again at Broodseinde Ridge on 4 October 1917.
The battalion moved to France in early April 1918 to assist counter the German Spring Offensive on the Somme and was then involved in the Battles of Hamel (July), Amiens (August) and the Hindenburg Line (September).
He returned to England in early March 1919, then departed for Australia on 12 May 1919.
He arrived back in Melbourne on 29 June, where he was formally discharged from the AIF on 6 August 1919.
Source: Extract from "Clunes Soldiers Memorial Panel" by Robert Wight, June 2022.
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