DELAPORTE, Arnold

Full Name: Arnold

DELAPORTE

Date of Birth: 02

–

1882

Place of birth: Bunbury

Australia

Occupation: Labourer

Address: White Road Bunbury

Next of Kin: Father-Richard Delaporte

Next of Kin Address: White Road Bunbury

Religion: Church of England

Service Number: 1992

Rank: Private

Unit/Division: 16th Battalion

Enlistment Date: 1915-02-16

Enlistment Location: Harvey

WA

Embarkation Port:

Embarkation Date: 1915-04-26

Embarkation Ship:

Disembarkation Port:

Disembarkation Date: 1915-05-20

Locations Served:

,

Returned: No

Discharge Date:

Cause of Death: Died illness

Date of Death:

Place of Death: Abbassia

Age at Death: 32

Burial Location: Cairo War Memorial Cemetery Egypt Grave No. D 330.

18/02/1915- Completed Medical Examination Harvey WA
20/02/1915- To No. 8 Depot Company Battalion as Private
24/04/1915- To 16th Battalion 5th Reinforcements Blackboy Hill WA
20/05/1915- To Overseas Training Base Egypt
17/06/1915- Joined  16th Battalion in the field Gallipoli
26/08/1915- Admitted No. 4 Field Ambulance Gallipoli  ( Enteric ) then to 16th Casualty Clearing Station
7/09/1915- Evacuated/Admitted Hospital Mudros Lemnos ex Hospital Ship Gallipoli ( Pleurisy ) ex 25th Casualty Clearing Station
11/09/1915- Evacuated/Admitted No.2 Aust General Hospital Ghezireh Cairo ( Colitis, Enteritis, Diarrhoea ,Pleurisy )
5/10/1915-Transferred No. 2 Aust General Hospital Mena House Convalescent Hospital Cairo ( Dysentry )
11/10/1915-Admitted to NZ & Aust Covalescent Hospital Helouan Egypt
21/10/1915- Discharged to Overseas Training Base Egypt ex Sickness
18/11/1915-Arrived Anzac Base Mudros West ex. Alexandria
8/12/1915-Rejoined Unit Gallipoli ex. Hospital
30/12/1915-Disembarked Alexandria Egypt ex. Mudros Lemnos ex Gallipoli
21/02/1916-Admitted New Zealand Aux Hospital Ismailia Egypt ( Influenza ) then to 4th Australian Aux. Hospital Moascar Egypt
23/02/1916-Transferred 1st Australian Stationary  Hospital Ismailia Egypt ex 4th Australian Field Ambulance ( Dangerously Ill )
24/02/1916-Transferred/Admitted No. 4 Australian Aux Hospital Abbassia Egypt ( Cerebral Spinal Meningitis )
25/02/1916-Died at 1.40 A.M. of Illness at 4th Australian Aux. Hospital Abbassia Egypt

Medical Report on admission to Hospital on 23/02/1916, stated:-  ” On admission very restless, groaning continually, appears to have much pain when moved, semi-comatose, will not answer questions “.

 

Medals Awarded- 1914/15 Star No. 13131,  British War Medal No. 13592,  Victory Medal No. 13532.
Memorial Scroll & Memorial Plaque No. 309891 Issued 4/03/1922

 

****- Thanks to Greg Reed for providing the Photo of Arnold Delaporte.