1893–1916

Arthur Hartley Sneyd

Typist

Parents

Arthur William Hartley Sneyd 1866–1922 tree · direct line Martha Blum 1870–1904 tree · direct line

Arthur Hartley Sneyd 1893–1916 in the tree

6 brothers and sisters

Ivy Miriam Sneyd 1891–1979 Vivian Claude Sneyd 1895–1949 Kenneth Seigfried Sneyd 1898–1935 Amy Nesta Sneyd 1900–1941 Beryl Marie Sneyd 1904–1905 Julia Hetty Sneyd b. 1892

written in a record this archive has read from the family tree, untested

None of the 8 relationships shown here is written in a record this archive has read. Every one comes from the family tree. That is not a claim that they are wrong — it is a statement about what has been checked, and on this site the difference is the point. How claims are labelled →

The record

Born	11 OCT 1893	Rockhampton City, Rockhampton Regional, Queensland, Australia
Died	20 AUG 1916	“In the field, France” — and a sergeant of the 10th Battalion reported Mouquet Farm
Cause	Killed in Action
Buried	—	No known grave — commemorated at Villers-Bretonneux
Trade	Typist

Corrected against the family tree. The rows above carry this archive's finding. What the exported tree says is printed here, because hiding it would conceal the one thing this site is for.

occupation: Typist — the tree says Clerk. His own attestation paper of 16 September 1915 says typist. Set out in full →
burial: No known grave — commemorated at Villers-Bretonneux — the tree says “France”. The Army Form B.2090A gives his burial place as “Not yet to hand”, and it never came to hand. Set out in full →
diedPlace: “In the field, France” — and a sergeant of the 10th Battalion reported Mouquet Farm — the tree says Pozières. The army's own report of death says only “in the field”, and the only witness to a burial named Mouquet Farm on the 22nd, not Pozières on the 20th. Set out in full →

Counted here with the Sneyd family · that family →

Family

Parents

Arthur William Hartley Sneyd · Martha Blum

Brothers and sisters

Ivy Miriam Sneyd (1891–1979) · Vivian Claude Sneyd (1895–1949) · Kenneth Seigfried Sneyd (1898–1935) · Amy Nesta Sneyd (1900–1941) · Beryl Marie Sneyd (1904–1905) · Julia Hetty Sneyd (b. 1892)

Where this comes from

1 of the relationships drawn above is written in a record this archive has read. NAA B2455 8088453, next of kin.

Every entry naming Arthur Hartley Sneyd in the register →

Everywhere Arthur appears in this archive

Every page of this site that writes about Arthur Hartley Sneyd, gathered automatically — 10 in total. This is the same evidence as the rest of the archive, brought together in one place.

The Search for Arthur

…a year later, from a lecture room at New College, Oxford. The official record disposes of Arthur Hartley Sneyd in one line: killed in action, 20 August 1916, in the field, France . Underneath that line is a file nobody in this family appear…

Gallery

…ht be Four faces this archive would most like and does not have. Who Why there is nothing Arthur Hartley Sneyd Killed at Pozières at 22. No photograph is known. His attestation paper gives his height, his complexion, his eye colour and his…

What This Archive Got Wrong

…am in 1810 He married Miss Ludlam in 1805 and Maria White in County Wicklow about 1819. → Arthur Hartley Sneyd was a clerk, buried in France A typist, with no known grave. → Vivian Ernest William Sneyd died between 1919 and 1921 16 February…

Open Questions

…hich the same search turned up and which is not digitised. His service → largely answered Arthur Hartley Sneyd, Private 5050, 9th Battalion. His thirty-page B2455 dossier has now been read : attested Brisbane 16 September 1915, a typist of…

Errands

…and sometimes a relationship. Context → notes/letters/2026-09-medway-archives.md 13 Where Arthur Hartley Sneyd is commemorated Free, quick, and this archive simply cannot reach it Commonwealth War Graves Commission · free, two minutes The a…

What Has Been Read

…g 9 Sep 2026 Searched: Three AIF service dossiers, read page by page at native resolution Arthur Hartley Sneyd 5050 (30 pp.), Vivian Claude Sneyd 1696 (21 pp.), Ernest Vivian William Sneyd 3891 (92 pp.). Arthur's corrected his trade from cl…

Sources

…es B2455 — First World War service dossiers. The thirty-page digitised dossier of Private Arthur Hartley Sneyd, 5050 (item 8088453) has been read in full : attestation, physical description, statement of service, the Army Form B.2090A repor…

The Great War

…h at forty-four. It is not digitised. What it would take → Private, 5050 · 20 August 1916 Arthur Hartley Sneyd, 9th Battalion Ivy's younger brother. Born at Rockhampton on 11 October 1893, schooled at Eagle Junction State School . His servi…

The Sneyds

…ritory border. It is the remotest birthplace in the archive by a long way. 20 August 1916 Arthur Hartley Sneyd, killed at Pozières Ivy's younger brother, born at Rockhampton on 11 October 1893, schooled at Eagle Junction State School, and a…

Timeline

…n names his father and closes a generation → 1915 Three Sneyds and a D'Arcy enlist → 1916 Arthur Hartley Sneyd killed at Pozières. Six men give six accounts → 1917 Vivian Claude Sneyd wins a Bar to the Military Medal at Westhoek → 1936 Lind…

Written about here

Pages of this archive where Arthur is part of the argument, not just a name in a list.

The search for him, 1916–17

His service record

The Sneyds

What is written about Arthur

Carried across from the family tree, with its markup stripped. Family testimony, not an independent record — valuable, and labelled.

This note reached the archive damaged. The export it came from stores rich text, and the transfer truncated it — opening tags cut off mid-attribute, and words missing from the middle of sentences. What follows has had the wreckage stripped, but sentences will still break off. That is the source, not the transcription, and nothing has been invented to bridge the gaps.

Place of death or wounding > The Australian National Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux is approached through the Military Cemetery, at the end of which is an open grass lawn which leads into a three-sided court. The two pavilions on the left and right are linked by the north and south walls to the back (east) wall, from which rises the focal point of the Memorial, a 105 foot tall tower, of fine ashlar. A staircase leads to an observation platform, 64 feet above the ground, from which further staircases lead to an observation room. This room contains a circular stone tablet with bronze pointers indicating the Somme villages whose names have become synonymous with battles of the Great War; other battle fields in France and Belgium in which Australians fought; and far beyond, Gallipoli and Canberra.
nown grave. The 'blocking course' above them bears the names of the Australian Battle Honours.
22,700, of which 12,500 came from Victorian school children, with the request that the majority of the funds be used to build a new school in Villers-Bretonneux. The boys' school opened in May 1927, and c
ion France 20 Aug 1916, No 5050,Pte, 9th Batt A.I.F. - Sep 16 1915
Queensland, Australia

Particulars for Roll of Honour (handwritten): https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/awm-media/collection/RCDIG1068838/document/5538351.PDF

Information about Arthur's school Eagle Junction SS and their memorial gates to students who served in WW1: https://eaglejunctionss.eq.edu.au/Ourschool/Pages/Ourschool.aspx

Eyewitness accounts of the circumstances of Arthur's death in the trenches in France. https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/awm-media/collection/RCDIG1064523/document/5652024.PDF

Sources attached in the tree

FamilySearch Family Tree — https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-40001-999009493/arthur-hartley-sneyd-in-familysearch-family-tree

These are the citations the family tree carries. Where this archive has checked one against the original, it says so on the relevant page. Method →

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