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Philip ARTIST

Regimental number2569
Place of birthPontifract, Yorkshire, England
SchoolElemetary School, England
Age on arrival in Australia30
ReligionChurch of England
OccupationLabourer
Address273 Goulburn Street, Sydney, New South Wales
Marital statusSingle
Age at embarkation39
Height5' 5"
Weight154 lbs
Next of kinFather, J Artist, Church House, Rattlesden, Suffolk, England
Previous military serviceServed for 12 years in the Suffolk Regiment, British Army.
Enlistment date2 June 1915
Date of enlistment from Nominal Roll8 June 1915
Place of enlistmentLiverpool, New South Wales
Rank on enlistmentPrivate
Unit name2nd Battalion, 8th Reinforcement
AWM Embarkation Roll number23/19/2
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board HMAT A54 Runic on 9 August 1915
Rank from Nominal RollLance Corporal
Unit from Nominal Roll54th Battalion
FateDied of wounds 20 July 1916
Place of death or woundingFrance
Age at death38
Age at death from cemetery records32
Place of burialBailleul Communal Cemetery Extension (Plot II, Row F, Grave No. 9), France
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
  Australian War Memorial
158
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Parents: James and Bathsheba ARTIST, Church House, Rattlesden, Suffolk, England
Other details

War service: Egypt, Western Front

Joined 2nd Bn, Gallipoli, 4 November 1915.

Disembarked Alexandria, 28 December 1915.

Admitted to Field Ambulance, Tel el Kebir, 2 January 1916; transferred to No 2 Australian General Hospital, Ghezireh, 4 January 1916 (jaundice); transferred to Australian and New Zealand Convalescent Hospital, Helouan, 7 January 1916; discharged to duty and marched in to Australian Overseas Base, Ghezireh, 15 January 1916; rejoined 2nd Bn, Tel el Kebir, 21 January 1916.

Transferred to 54th Bn, 14 February 1916; joined 54th Bn, Tel el Kebir, 16 February 1916.

Promoted Lance Corporal, 1 March 1916.

Found guilty, 13 June 1916, of neglect of duty: reprimanded.

Embarked Alexandria to join the British Expeditionary Force, 19 June 1916; disembarked Marseilles, France, 29 June 1916.

Admitted to No 8 Field Ambulance, then transferred to No 2 Australian Casualty Clearing Station, 20 July 1916 (gun shot wound, abdomen).

Died of wounds, No 2 Australian Clearing Station, 20 July 1916.

Buried at Bailleul Cemetery Extension by Reverend A Hooper, 20 July 1916.

Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
SourcesNAA: B2455, ARTIST Philip

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