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Born: 5 October 1891
Died: 31 October 1917
Son of Benjamin and Edith Cecilia Arnold, of George's Head, Mosman.
Killed in the Ypres salient by German shellfire when repairing a captured German strongpoint.
In 1929 his mother Edith Cecilia Arnold, then at 6 Gouldsbury Street, Mosman, completed the particulars for the Roll of Honour in the Australian War Memorial. She said he'd been to Mosman Public School and Sydney Technical College, and, prior to enlisting in the AIF, served five years in the 37th Fortress Company (engineers).
She said he was present at the battles of Fleurbaix (now better known as Fromelles), Somme (winter of 1916-1917), Bullecourt, Polygon Wood, and Paschendaele. He was promoted, she says, for good work and bravery at Polygon Wood.
His cousin 7214 Private George Cree, 4th Battalion, killed in action, 23 August 1918.
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- Corpl. B.S. Arnold (photograph)
- Find War Dead – Arnold, Benjamin Samuel (webpage)
- First World War Embarkation Rolls - Benjamin Samuel Arnold (webpage)
- Roll of Honour - Benjamin Samuel Arnold (webpage)
- Red Cross Wounded and Missing - Benjamin Samuel Arnold (webpage)
- DOUBLE CASUALTY LIST. NEW SOUTH WALES. KILLED. (newspaper article)
- Arnold Benjamin Samuel : SERN 2836 : POB Sydney NSW : POE Sydney NSW : NOK M Arnold Edith Cecila (webpage)
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- ARNOLD B. S. on the West Face of the Mosman War Memorial
- Arnold, B. on the Mosman Public School Roll of Honour