Service Details:

29 July	1915                      Brisbane, Queensland
15 January	1916                      Egypt (Tel-el-kibir)
21 March	1916                      France
6/7 June	1916                      Trench Raid
29 July – 27 Aug.	1916                      Pozieres (Sausage Valley)
4 August	1916                      Pozieres
6 September	1916                      Belgium
October	1916                      Ypres and Dernacourt
3 November	1916                      Battle of Ancres Heights & Fricourt
26 Febuary	1917                      Promoted Corporal
22 Febuary	1917                      Instructor Div. Bomb School
October 21	1917                      Returned from Bomb School
23 October	1917                      Promoted Sergeant
30 October	1917                      Wounded, Battle of Passchendale (Ypres)
22 January	1918                      Rejoined Battalion
7 April	1918                      Dernacourt
20 April	1918                      Ville Sur-Ancre
May	1918                      Morlancourt
27 June	1918                      Villers-Bretonneux
8 August	1918                      Reduced to ranks for striking a MP
29 August	1918                      Somme
8 August	1918                      Mont St. Quentin
2 Sept	1918                      Wounded Mont St. Quentin
11 November	1918                      Armistice
2 January	1919                      Returned to Australia

 

 

Biographical Details:

Born in 1880 to Thomas Crowley Moxley and Frances Lydia Knight in Brisbane, Arthur Henry Selwyn Moxley was the second youngest of a family of six girls and five boys.
In 1901, Arthur as part of the sixth Queensland Contingent, served in the Boer War in South Africa. He was the only Black ANZAC, Boer War veteran.
At the outbreak of World War 1 Arthur was employed as a Commission Agent.  He enlisted with the 4th Reinforcement of the 26th Battalion and after training in Egypt joined it in Tel-El-Kebir in January 1916.
During the Raid Arthur was part of the Left Bombing Party, a role he must have excelled at because in February 1917 he was appointed an instructor at the Division Bomb School. During this period he was promoted to Corporal and then Sergeant.
Arthur was wounded twice: the first time at Ypres, Belgium, when he was gassed.  On the second occasion in September 1918 his left arm was badly injured.  This saw him returned to Australia early in 1919. He was subsequently awarded a disability pension (T.P.I.).
During the war Arthur appeared before two Courts Martial.  On the first occasion he was accused of losing his kit. He claimed that it had been stolen and supported his case with witnesses.  He was found not guilty.
In the second case he had been drinking in a bar.  The proprietor had complained about poor behaviour in the past and a foot patrol had ordered Moxley to leave. In response he struck the Sergeant in command. He was found guilty and reduced to the ranks from his position of Sergeant.  
After returning from the war, in 1921, Moxley became a patrol officer for the Commonwealth Government at Morobi, New Guinea.  In April, 1925 he divorced his wife of 15 years on the grounds of desertion. He had two children one of whom died when he was serving in N.G. He married Emily Nelson in November 1925.
Arthur Moxley died in November 1945.