Rank: 
Corporal
Service number: 
306
Unit: 
32nd Infantry Battalion
Location: 
Packet number: 
3927
Date range: 
1917
SLSA record number: 
SRG 76/1/3927

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Arthur was born at Powers Creek 13 miles from Edenhope in Western Victoria. As a child he grew up on a farm.
Arthur Edmund Wynniatt was such a man of high esteem in his community, and this is where he met Ada Millicent Owens.
Ada and Arthur married and had four children, Arthur Ross Wynniatt, Darlow Wynniatt, Owen Stanley Wynniatt and Norma Beith Wynniatt.
Ada and Arthur purchased a farm in Glenroy near Penola in the South East of South Australia.
Ada was always pretty well near Arthurs side and in sad memories she left him in 1953, Arthur was devastated and went into heavy bouts of depression. In early 1959 my father asked him if he would like to live at "Content" the name of my fathers farm. In January 1960 Arthur took up reside at Charam, some fifteen miles from Edenhope.
In 1964 tiredness took Arthur to join his beloved wife of many years, they are interred right next to each other in the Penola Cemetery.
Though gone neither are forgotten for each year on ANZAC day the Mayor of Penola (Wattle Range Council) reads his name out in memory of the sacrifice he gave for King and country.

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