Arthur Stanley Kenworthy was born in Ballarat East and was a Bank Clerk by trade when he enlisted in the September 1916 Reinforcements on 15 October 1915 at the age of 20. His unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A71 Nestor on 2 October 1916. He reached France on November 30th and served there with the 12th Field Ambulance until he was wounded on October 19th 1917. He sustained a shrapnel wound to his right hip and invalided to England. He returned to France in June 1918 and served out the remaining months of the war. He returned to Australia as a member of the nursing staff on the Port Lyttleton and disembarked at Melbourne on August 5th 1919.
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