Arthur William Cecil Attwood
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'''ATTWOOD, Arthur William Cecil''' | '''ATTWOOD, Arthur William Cecil''' | ||
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'''Place of birth:''' Borenore, 1895 | '''Place of birth:''' Borenore, 1895 | ||
Current revision as of 00:54, 18 November 2020
ATTWOOD, Arthur William Cecil
Service no: 5783 [1]
Place of birth: Borenore, 1895
Address: Lord Street, Orange
Occupation: Miner/mail contractor
Next of kin: Arthur Tillman Attwood (father), Lord Street, Orange, later 26 Leinester Street, Paddington
Date of enlistment: 9 May 1916
Place of enlistment: Dubbo
Age at enlistment: 21
Fate: Embarked HMAT A40 Ceramic, Sydney, 7 October 1916. Killed in action Bullecourt, France, 3 May 1917.
Date of death: 3 May 1917
Buried: No known grave
Born in Borenore in 1895, Arthur William Cecil Attwood enlisted in the First World War in Dubbo on 9 May 1916.
Arthur’s military career lasted barely a year; he was one of 21 men from the Orange district who were killed in the Battle of Bullecourt in May 1917.
Arthur was 23 years old when he was killed in action; he has no known grave. He is commemorated on the World War I Roll of Honour on the southern face of the Orange Cenotaph, on panel number 98 on the Roll of Honour at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra and on the Australian National Memorial at Villers-Bretonneux in France.
