Private: 3778 Archibald Nelson GRAHAM

2nd BATTALION - 1st PIONEER BATTALION AIF

Private: 3778 Archibald Nelson GRAHAM

Born: 8 Aug 1885. Redfern, New South Wales Australia. Birth Cert:10635/1885.

Married: 14 Dec 1910. St Mark's Church, Darling Point. Sydney New South Wales, Australia. Marriage Cert:14265/1910. Original Certificate:23274.

Wife: Helen Jean Graham nee: Blair. (1886-19..) Born Woollarah, N.S.W, Australia.

Death: 14 Dec 1919. Tarcoon (near Brewarrina), New South Wales Australia. Death Cert:1413/1920.

Burial: 16 Dec 1919. near the Tarcoon Railway Siding, Tarcoon , New South Wales, Australia.

Father: William GRAHAM (1840-1917) Born Armagh, Ireland

Mother: Sarah Ann ARNOLD (1844-1925) Born Port Nelson, New Zealand

INFORMATION

Archibald Nelson Graham enlisted with the AIF on the 1st May 1915 at Sydney N.S.W. before he was sent to the Training Camp at Liverpool and embarked from Sydney on board HMAT A7 "Medic" on the 30th December 1915.

Archibald with the 2nd Battalion Reinforcements proceeded overseas for France on the 5th April 1917.

Archibald returned to Australia on board the "Soudan" on the 3rd July 1919 where he attended the Domain Anzac Buffet in Sydney and was discharged from the AIF on the 25th August 1919. Reports to be confirmed his mother was the Post Office Mistress

Family Information

Archibald was a married 29 year old Letter Sorter from Redfern, N.S.W. upon enlistment with the AIF.

Postal Employee (at time of death) NSW, Australia

Archibald was found dead near the railway siding at Tarcoon, near Brewarrina in Western NSW. He was buried at the site where his body was discovered.

Archibald was separated from his wife, pending divorce, after he returned from World War One.

The Brewarrina railway line is a closed branch railway line in far-western New South Wales, Australia. It joined the Main West Line at Byrock with the town of Brewarrina on the Darling River. It was 93.67 km long.