Arnold Cecil CARR
Year of Birth: 1896
Place of Birth: Herberton, Queensland, Australia
Date of Enlistment: 1 April 1916
Date and Place of Embarkation: 16 August 1916, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Ship: HMAT Boorara A42
Rank: Private
Unit(s): 41st Battalion
Regimental Number: 1798
Died: 5 October 1917
Arnold Cecil Carr was born in 1896, the youngest child of William Thorn Carr and his wife Emily (nee Law). His older siblings were Emily (b. 1875), William (b. 1877), Agnes (b. 1879), Melicent (b. 1880), Gertrude (b. 1882), Lucy (b. 1885), Letitia (b. 1887), Amy (b. 1890), and Ivy (b. 1893).
At the time of enlistment, he was living in Herberton working as a miner. His father held the license to the Cosmopolitan Hotel opposite the Herberton Post Office. His mother had passed away in 1905.
Arnold Cecil Carr was 19 years old, 5 feet 1 inches tall and weighed 180 pounds. He had a fair complexion, brown eyes and fair hair. His religion was Church of England. He named his father William Thorn Carr as his next of kin.
He embarked at Brisbane on the HMAT Boorara on 12 August 1916 and proceeded to France from Southampton, England on 24 November 1916.
He was killed in action on 5 October 1917. He is commemorated at Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.
Online Resources
NAA: B2455 (CARR A C) National Archives of Australia
National Library of Australia: Trove Digitised Newspapers
Queensland Registrar of Births Deaths & Marriages
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