Arnold Bruce Martin

1919 - 1942  (23 years)

• Name	Arnold Bruce Martin
  Born	10 Aug 1919	Cobbora, New South Wales, Australia
  Gender	Male
  Died	21 Nov 1942	New Guinea
  	Name: MARTIN, ARNOLD BRUCE Initials: A B Nationality: Australian Rank: Corporal Regiment/Service: Australian Infantry Unit Text: A.I.F. 2/1 Bn. Age: 23 Date of Death: 21/11/1942 Service No: NX71627 Additional information: Son of Kenneth Clarence and Eliza Ellen Martin; of Baradine, New South Wales; husband of Kitty Helen Martin, of North Bondi, New South Wales. Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 2. Memorial: PORT MORESBY MEMORIAL The Port Moresby Memorial is situated in Port Moresby (Bomana) War Cemetery, which is located approximately 19 kilometres north of Port Moresby on the road to Nine Mile. It is approached from the main road by a short side road called Pilgrims Way. The memorial commemorates over 700 officers and men of the Australian Army (including Papuan and New Guinea local forces), the Australian Merchant Navy and the Royal Australian Air Force, who gave their lives during the operations in Papua and who have no known grave. Men of the Royal Australian Navy who lost their lives in the south-western Pacific region, and who have no graves but the sea, are commemorated on Plymouth Naval Memorial in England, along with many of their comrades of the Royal Navy and of other Commonwealth Naval Forces. The Memorial consists of a rotunda of cylindrical pillars enclosing a circle of square pillars bearing on their inside bronze panels upon which the names are engraved. In the centre is a low circular stone table on which is a bronze compass.
  Siblings	5 siblings
  1. Eunice Rose Martin,   b. 14 Mar 1914, New South Wales, Australia ,   d. 17 Jan 2006, Coonabarabran, New South Wales, Australia ,   m. Kevin Curtis Rice (1937)
  2. Neita Martin,   b. 27 Apr 1915, Dunedoo, New South Wales, Australia ,   d. 13 Dec 1989, Coonabarabran, New South Wales, Australia ,   m. Richard Arthur Bowerman (1941)
  3. Edgar Norman Martin,   b. 20 Sep 1916, New South Wales, Australia ,   d. 2 Nov 1995, New South Wales, Australia ,   m. Charity Walters (1938)
  4. Kenneth Martin,   b. 1920, Coonabarabran, New South Wales, Australia ,   d. 1920, Coonabarabran, New South Wales, Australia
  5. Aileen Ida Martin,   b. 1923, New South Wales, Australia ,   d. 5 Feb 1939, Coonabarabran, New South Wales, Australia
  Ancestors
  Patriarch & Matriarch	Edward John Martin   (Grandfather)  Rose Anna Napier Wood,   b. 4 Jun 1874, Redbank, South Australia, Australia ,   d. 28 Sep 1948, Baradine, New South Wales, Australia  (Age 74 years)  (Grandmother)
  Person ID	I10257	Clark
  Last Modified	11 Jan 2012

  
  

  Father	Kenneth Clarence Martin,   b. 7 Mar 1889, Dubbo, New South Wales, Australia ,   d. 20 Jun 1969, Coonabarabran, New South Wales, Australia  (Age 80 years)
  Mother	Eliza Helene Jenkins,   b. 1 Feb 1896, Gilgunnia, New South Wales, Australia ,   d. 12 Jul 1982, Baradine, New South Wales, Australia  (Age 86 years)
  Family ID	F2387	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Wife	Kitty Helen Sage,   b. 17 Oct 1920, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia ,   d. 19 Jan 2002  (Age 81 years)  Other partners John Arnold Mayoh  m. 1946
  Married	1942	North Sidney, New South Wales, Australia
  Last Modified	31 Dec 2011
  Family ID	F2872	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart