Arthur Brooke Hurst

Service number: 884

Rank: Private

Unit: 5th Company Australian Machine Gun Corps

Service: Australian Army

Date of death: 31 July 1916

Cause of death: Died of wounds

Cemetery or memorial details: Warloy-Baillon Communal Cemetery Extension, France

War Grave Register notes:

HURST, Pte. Arthur Brooke, 884. 5th Coy. Australian Machine Gun Coprs. Died of wounds 31st July, 1916. Son of John William and Amy Hurst, of 24, Ocean Rd., Manly New South Wales. VII. A. 50.

Source: AWM145 Roll of Honour cards, 1914-1918 War, Army

Arthur Hurst was born in 1894 at Strathfield. He was a dental mechanic prior to enlisting. His mother lived at 24 Ocean Road, Manly.

He embarked on the Berrima on 26 June 1915, and arrived at Anzac on 19 August 1915.

His unit served at Walker’s Ridge, Gallipoli for three months, before he was invalided to hospital on Malta with dysentery.

He then saw action in France, and was fatally gassed at Pozieres on 31 July 1916.