Arthur Allen JENNINGS

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JENNINGS, Arthur Allen

    Service Number: 1411
    Enlisted: 30 June 1915, Enlisted at Keswick, SA
    Last Rank: Trooper
    Last Unit: 9th Light Horse Regiment
    Born: Woorolong, South Australia , 25 April 1885
    Home Town: Mount Gambier, Mount Gambier, South Australia
    Schooling: Not yet discovered
    Occupation: Farmer
    Died: Illness-Tuberculois, Glenelg, South Australia, 5 April 1931, aged 45 years
    Cemetery: West Terrace Cemetery (AIF Section)
    Light Oval, Row 2S, Site 17 Interred on the 7 April 1931
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    World War 1 Service

    30 Jun 1915: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1411, 9th Light Horse Regiment, Enlisted at Keswick, SA
    27 Oct 1915: Involvement Private, 1411, 9th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '2' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: ''
    27 Oct 1915: Embarked Private, 1411, 9th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Ulysses, Melbourne
    5 Aug 1916: Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 1411, 9th Light Horse Regiment, Bullet wound above the right eye which cause the loss of the eye and transferred to Cairo. Wounded at the canal Zone
    8 May 1917: Discharged AIF WW1, Trooper, 1411, 9th Light Horse Regiment, Discharged as medically unfit
    11 Nov 1918: Involvement Trooper, 1411

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    Biography contributed by Carol Foster

    Son of William Jennings and Elizabeth Ann (nee Wallace) Jennings of Mount Gambier; brother of Albert Henry Jennings of 105 Hope Street, Brunswick, Victoria, William George Jennings, Walter Jennings, George Wallace Jennings and Edith Minnie Jennings

    22 September 1916 - embarked at Suez for return to Australia on board HS Kanowna for discharge

    Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

    Residential address in 1931 was given as Mount Gambier

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