DEARDS, Arthur
| Service Numbers: | Not yet discovered |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Dungog, New South Wales, Australia, 19 September 1893 |
| Home Town: | Murwillumbah, Tweed, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Pneumonia from measles, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 10 November 1915, aged 22 years |
| Cemetery: |
Murwillumbah Banner Street Memorial Park |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| Date unknown: | Involvement Private |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Merridee Wouters
Arthur was the second of five sons of Arthur Deards, and his namesake. Coming from the Murwullimbah area, Arthur travelled to Brisbane to enlist to Sept 15th 1915. He nominated his job as labourer. He was assigned to the fifth depot batallion for training but contracted measles at the barracks and died in Royal Brisbane Hospital of pneumonia on Nov 10th 1915 before leaving Australian shores.
Arthur was interred in the Murwillumbah Old Cemetery which was later turned into a park. The headstones of the three war casualties were removed and they are now alternatively commemorated on a plaque.
His older brother Frederick (known as Howard) also later enlisted and died in France.
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