Arthur Alfred SNELL

Badge Number: S4160, Sub Branch: St. Morris
S4160

SNELL, Arthur Alfred

Service Number: 765
Enlisted: 26 November 1914
Last Rank: Driver
Last Unit: 1st Light Horse Brigade Machine Gun Squadron
Born: Kadina, South Australia, January 1885
Home Town: North Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Station Hand
Died: 1962, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered
Cemetery: Not yet discovered
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World War 1 Service

26 Nov 1914: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 765, 3rd Light Horse Regiment
29 Jan 1915: Involvement Private, 765, 3rd Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '1' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Mashobra embarkation_ship_number: A47 public_note: ''
29 Jan 1915: Embarked Private, 765, 3rd Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Mashobra, Melbourne
9 Jun 1916: Promoted AIF WW1, Driver, 3rd Light Horse Regiment
21 Jul 1916: Transferred AIF WW1, Driver, 1st Light Horse Brigade Machine Gun Squadron
11 Nov 1918: Involvement Driver, 765, 3rd Light Horse Regiment
4 Mar 1920: Discharged AIF WW1, Driver, 765, 1st Light Horse Brigade Machine Gun Squadron, 4th MD

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Biography contributed by Evan Evans

From Malcolm Formosa

This is my Great Uncle Alfred Arthur Snell Jr. He was born in Kadina in South Australian in the year (1885) he passed away in (1962) he went over to fight in the Great World War 1, and he was in the 3rd Light Horse Regiment, 3rd Reinforcement and he was a Machine Gunner also from his mother side that is Catherine Campbell Manners he also had Royal Blood Line from our 16th times Great Grandmother she was Anne Plantagenet of York, her father was Richard Plantagenet Duke of York, we are all from the White Rose Family. I got some information about my Great Uncle Alfred Arthur Snell, when he was the age of 60 years old he was in an incident which some thing happened to him. and it seems that he was a lucky man he not only survive the Great World War 1 he survive being shot in the stomach with a shotgun at the hands of his son-in-law who then took his own life, he died in the Royal Adelaide Hospital from Extensive wounds to his face and head. My Great Uncle Alfred Arthur Snell he lived in the suburb of Magill and his son-in-law lived in the suburb of Rosslyn Park not very far from one another in Adelaide South Australian that was a true story.

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