Hi Joy, I read a book years ago, "Soldier Boy", by Anthony Hill, the story of Jim MARTIN who is the youngest ANZAC - he, too, lied about his age, saying he was 18, when in fact he was only 14 years and 9 months when he died in October 1915. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Martin_%28Australian_soldier%29 The youngest British soldier was a boy named Sidney LEWIS, who was only 13 when he joined up - his mother managed to get him sent home again. An odd coincidence, I was watching a show on the ABC yesterday about the Somme, and Sidney was mentioned in the stories. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2499832/Sidney-Lewis-Youngest-WW1-soldier-fought-Somme-aged-13.html I am sure the Australian War Memorian in Canberra would be able to establish where Arthur TURNER came on the list - http://www.awm.gov.au/ Cheers Trish Nowra NSW > A friend has asked me to try to establish was his father the youngest > soldier at Gallipoli. > His name Arthur George Turner > Lied about his age to enlist > Birthplace Loe or Lue in UK > Born around the turn of the 20th C > Lived in Western Australia having migrated with this family prior to WWI > Married a girl family name Nightingale > They lived in South Como, Western Australia from the 1930’s > Had 4 children, John, Gerard, Kevin and Mary > Arthur was a teacher > Joy Morrison
There's an Arthur George Turner from WA listed in the WW1 Dossiers here - http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/NameSearch/Interface/ItemDetail.aspx?Barcode=1919842 Has some of the credentials required but not 100% sure... Cheers, Peter On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 4:42 PM, symonds3 via <aus-tasmania@rootsweb.com> wrote: > Hi Joy, > I read a book years ago, "Soldier Boy", by Anthony Hill, the story of Jim > MARTIN who is the youngest ANZAC - he, too, lied about his age, saying he > was 18, when in fact he was only 14 years and 9 months when he died in > October 1915. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Martin_%28Australian_soldier%29 > The youngest British soldier was a boy named Sidney LEWIS, who was only 13 > when he joined up - his mother managed to get him sent home again. An odd > coincidence, I was watching a show on the ABC yesterday about the Somme, > and > Sidney was mentioned in the stories. > > http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2499832/Sidney-Lewis-Youngest-WW1-soldier-fought-Somme-aged-13.html > I am sure the Australian War Memorian in Canberra would be able to > establish > where Arthur TURNER came on the list - > http://www.awm.gov.au/ > Cheers > Trish > Nowra NSW > > > > A friend has asked me to try to establish was his father the youngest > > soldier at Gallipoli. > > His name Arthur George Turner > > Lied about his age to enlist > > Birthplace Loe or Lue in UK > > Born around the turn of the 20th C > > Lived in Western Australia having migrated with this family prior to WWI > > Married a girl family name Nightingale > > They lived in South Como, Western Australia from the 1930’s > > Had 4 children, John, Gerard, Kevin and Mary > > Arthur was a teacher > > Joy Morrison > > ------------------------------- > AUS-Tasmania Mailing List Website http://www.rootsweb.com/~austashs/ > Contact Admin AUS-Tasmania-Admin@rootsweb.com > Search the Archive (type AUS-Tasmania in the list box) > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > AUS-TASMANIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >