Branch of Service

Army

Conflict

World War I (1914-1918)

Date of Enlistment

30/11/1914

Date of Discharge

20/11/1916

Place of Enlistment

Liverpool NSW

Gender

Male

Place of Birth

Grimsby, England

Address (at enlistment)

Duntroon ACT

Occupation

Labourer

Next of Kin

Son of Arthur Stedman, 51 Neville St, New Clee (?), Grimsby, England

Service Number

1631

Final Rank

Private

Final Unit

2 Battalion AIF

St. John the Baptist's Church, Canberra, Roll of Honour, in Frederick W. Robinson, Canberra's First Hundred Years, Sydney, W.C. Penfold, p. 63.
Large stone tablet on outside of northern wall of St. John's Church, Reid ACT

Arthur Stedman was an Englishman who worked as a farrier at Duntroon from February 1914 until he enlisted in November 1914 at Liverpool. He had previously served in the Lincolnshire Imperial Yeomanry for two years and for three years in the North Midlands Brigade of the Royal Field Artillery. Stedman served with the 2nd Battalion, embarking from Australia in February 1915 and landing on Gallipoli on 25 April but he was seriously wounded during the first few days of fighting. He was evacuated to England in July and returned to Australia in October 1915, being discharged on 20 November 1916 as medically unfit because of a gun shot wound to his right arm.

The entry on the Roll of Honour at St. John's appears to be an error. Stedman was granted a pension starting on 21 November 1916 and gave an address in Sydney. His service file was sent to the Repatriation Department in Melbourne in 1943.

Description - height 5 feet 5 inches, weight 140 pounds, chest 32-34.5 inches, fair complexion, blue eyes, fair hair, Church of England, he had been vaccinated and had a mole on his right arm.

First World War Nominal Roll
First World War Unit Embarkation Rolls
St. John the Baptist's Church, Canberra, Roll of Honour, in Frederick W. Robinson, Canberra's First Hundred Years, Sydney, W.C. Penfold (p.63)
Ross Howarth, 'Civilians employed at the Royal Military College of Australia, Duntroon, from 1911 to 1931', RMC Duntroon, November 2000.
NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920)