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WORLD WAR I QRA RIFLEMAN

Private Arthur Laughton HALLIDAY

18 November 1891 – 5 June 1918

Private Halliday - PDF information sheet
Arthur Halliday Memorial Shield
Private Arthur Laughton HALLIDAY​

Service:

  • Service Number 6818
  • Enlisted: 16/09/1916 at a rifle range in Brisbane.
  • 16/09/1916: Joined the 25th Battalion, 20th reinforcements
  • 14/06/1917: Embarkation from Sydney on HMAT Hororata A20
  • 5th & 7th Training Battalion in Wiltshire, England before joining his Unit in France in late April 1918
  • Killed in Action – 5th June 1918
    • Killed from shell fire that he received while on duty burying cable in the vicinity of Heilly, Mericourt, FRANCE

Cemetery &/or Memorial:

  • Bonnay Communal Cemetery Extension, Picardie, France
  • Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour,
  • Windsor War Memorial

Military Honours & Awards:

  • British War Medal
  • Victory Medal

Armistice Centenary War Memorial

Commemoration Service

  • ANZAC Day 2021 Keynote Address Ian Errington
  • ANZAC Day 2022 inaugural Roll of Honour Tribute
The Story Behind the Name
Roll of Honour Tribute

INDIVIDUAL SHOOTING:

  • In 1908, Halliday joined the City of Brisbane Rifle Club at the age of 17
  • He won several club championships: one of which was the 1915 City of Brisbane Club Championship and Handicap Aggregate – Enoggera (verified)
  • Halliday won the Stock Exchange Cup (1913) shooting in the first stage of the King’s prize (seven shots at 200 yards, 500 yards, and 600 yards). Halliday scored 100 out of a possible 105.
  • in 1913, he was 8th in the King’s Prize (Bisley)
  • 1913 he won the Victorian King’s Prize
  • In his second trip to Bisley, he placed 4th in the King’s Prize with a score of 302.

RIFLE TEAM SHOOTING:

  • In 1911, Halliday travelled with the QLD team to WA (1911), Hobart (1912) and was part the QLD team which competed in the Commonwealth Match in Brisbane (1913)
  • In 1913, he was selected in the Australian Rifle Team for Bisley
  • The Australian Team won the Mackinnon Shield (1913) with Halliday achieving a personal score of 130.
  • He was part of the Australian Team in the Empire Match (1913) that came second to Great Britain (Bisley)
  • In 1914 he was again selected in the Australian Rifle Team for Bisley
  • The Australian Team was victorious in the:
    • Kolapore Cups 1914 (Bisley)
    • Mackinnon Shield in 1914 (Bisley)

Arthur Laughton HALLIDAY

FULL LINK LIST - INCL. IMAGES

LINKS FOR HALLIDAY

Links for Halliday

  • https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=4266926
  • https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/R1935397
  • https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/R1637343- see Roll of Honour Circular
  • https://www.aif.adfa.edu.au/showPerson?pid=123734
  • https://vwma.org.au/explore/people/248129
  • Southern QLD Rifle Association Jubilee 1877 - 1927. A Brief History of the Association During the Past Fifty Years. By A. T. Jackson.
  • TEAM FOR BISLEY - https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/39926889 - 20 Feb 1913
  • THE BISLEY TEAM. (ARTHUR CUTLER'S VIEWS) - https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/111203937 - 24 Feb 1913
  • THE BISLEY TEAM. REPRESENTATIVE AUSTRALIAN SHOTS. - https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/45204702 - 28 Feb 1913
  • AUSTRALIAN RIFLE TEAM. BOUND FOR BISLEY - https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/44876450 - 16 May 1913
  • BISLEY RIFLE MATCHES. THE MACKINNON CUP. WON BY AUSTRALIA. GOOD SCORE BY WHITE. LONDON, July 17.
  • https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/5793363 - 19 July 1913
  • AUSTRALIAN WINNERS (MACKINNON CUP, BISLEY 1913) - https://www.flickr.com/photos/70994841@N07/20097068212
  • Australian Riflemen's Success - https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/100260030 - 22 July 1913
  • SCORES OF AUSTRALIANS. QUEENSLANDER MOST PROMINENT - https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/157794391
  • 28 July 1913
  • AUSTRALIAN RIFLE TEAM AT BISLEY RANGES - https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/150685443 - 7 Aug 1913
  • BISLEY RIFLE SHOOTING AUSTRALIANS IN THE EMPIRE MATCH WIN THE MACKINNON CUP - https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/105589046 - 19 Aug 1913
  • RIFLE SHOOTING. BISLEY SELECTION TEST - https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/19958863 - 6 Mar 1914
  • BISLEY - HALLIDAY AND BAGLEY TO REPRESENT QUEENSLAND - https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/19942049 - 31 Mar 1914
  • MESSRS. C. BAGLEY AND A. L. HALLIDAY. - https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/19946062 - 4 April 1914
  • Australian Bisley Rifle Team Representatives. - https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/19942771 - 28 April 1914
  • AUSTRALIAN BISLEY TEAM. - https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/15504821 - 29 April 1914

RIFLE SHOOTING

  • AUSTRALIANS AT EDINBURGH https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/89992698 - 17 June 1914
  • BISLEY MEETING. MACKINNON CUP https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/10796959 - 18 July 1914
  • WINNERS OF THE KOLAPORE CUP
    • https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/239072018 - 23 July 1914
  • King's Prize. Success of Halliday
    • https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/175450301 - 24 July 1914
  • Bisley Rifle Meeting. THE KING'S PRIZE.
    • https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/120094142 - 27 July 1914
  • THE AUSTRALIAN RIFLE TEAM WHO DID SO WELL AT BISLEY THEY WON THE MACKINNON SHIELD AND THE KOLAPORE CUP
    • https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/37964735 - 28 Aug 1914
  • Australian Rifle Team, Winners Kolapore Cups, Bisley, 1914
    • https://viewer.slv.vic.gov.au/?entity=IE1496107&mode=browse - 1914
  • THE KING'S PRIZE. AUSTRALIA'S FINE DISPLAY. SEVEN IN THE FIRST THIRTY.
    • https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/6431573 - 7 September 1914
  • CITY OF BRISBANE RIFLE CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP WON BY A. L. HALLIDAY
    • https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/20009325?searchTerm=city%20of%20 brisbane%20rifle%20club# - 14 June 191
  • Personal Notes
    • https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/175199915 - 24 June 1918
  • CRACK QUEENSLAND SHOT. DEATH IN FRANCE.
    • https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/179409489 - 25 June 1918
  • RIFLE SHOOTING
    • https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/179837787 - 25 Oct 1918
  • Q.R.A. ANNUAL MEETING. Riflemen at Enoggera
    • https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/253878586 - 10 Sept 1924
  • RIFLE SHOOTING. JUBILEE PRIZE MEETING
    • https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/253981826 - 24 Aug 1927

Regimental number

6818

Place of birth

Nundah, Queensland

School

Nundah School, Nundah, Queensland

Religion

Church of England

Occupation

Clerk

Address

Wooloowin, Queensland

Marital status

Single

Age at embarkation

25

Next of kin

Mother, Mrs Eleanor Halliday, Wride Street, Wooloowin, Brisbane, Queensland

Enlistment date

16 September 1916

Rank on enlistment

Private

Unit name

25th Battalion, 20th Reinforcement

AWM Embarkation Roll number

23/42/6

Embarkation details

Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board HMAT A20 Hororata on 14 June 1917

Rank from Nominal Roll

Private

Unit from Nominal Roll

25th Battalion

Other details from Roll of Honour Circular

“A.L. Halliday at the time of his death was the Champion Rifle Shot of Queensland. He had represented the State on three occasions in interstate matches and was one of the Australian team at Bisley in two consecutive years, coming 8th in the Kings the first year and 4th the second year. On his way home he won the Kings Prize in Melbourne. He also won many trophies and medals, and, on several occasions, he won the championship of the Club. He was a member of the City Rifle Club.” Details from Mother.

Fate

Killed in Action 5 June 1918

Place of death or wounding

Mericourt, 1918, France

Age at death

20

Place of burial

Bonnay Cemetery Extension (Row C, Grave No. 14), France

Australian War Memorial

Panel number, Roll of Honour,104

Miscellaneous information from cemetery records

Parents: John and Eleanor HALLIDAY, Wryde Street, Wooloowin, Brisbane

Family/military connections

Cousin, Robert Bede Cochrane, of Western Australia

Other details

War service: Western Front

Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal

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