Arthur Clifford PAIN

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PAIN, Arthur Clifford

Service Number:	37446
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Gunner
Last Unit:	Field Artillery Brigades
Born:	Cobbitty, New South Wales, Australia, 1874
Home Town:	Burwood, Burwood, New South Wales
Schooling:	Sydney Grammar School, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation:	Analytical Chemist
Died:	Killed in Action, France, 8 August 1918
Cemetery:	Cerisy-Gailly Military Cemetery Plot I, Row C, Grave No. 1.
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Darlinghurst St John's Anglican Church Honour Board, Sydney Grammar School WW1 Honour Board

World War 1 Service

5 Nov 1917:	Involvement Gunner, 37446, Field Artillery Brigades, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '4' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Port Sydney embarkation_ship_number: A15 public_note: ''
5 Nov 1917:	Embarked Gunner, 37446, Field Artillery Brigades, HMAT Port Sydney, Sydney
8 Aug 1918:	Involvement Gunner, 37446, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 37446 awm_unit: 8th Australian Field Artillery Brigade awm_rank: Gunner awm_died_date: 1918-08-08

Summary

''Educated at Hayfield School and the Sydney Grammar School. He was in the employ of the Colonial Sugar Refining Company, stationed in Fiji, when in 1917 he decided to enlist in the Australian Imperial Forces.

During his military service he refused both Commissioned and Non-Commissioned Rank.

Then his battery was wiped out by an enemy shell at 8.00 am on 8 August 1918, he was gunner (No. 37446) 108 Howitzer Battery, 8th F.A. Brigade.

He was buried at Cerissy Gale, France."
(from Arthur Franklyn Pain 1973)

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