10/783 Sergeant Arthur Casement Bernard, Wellington Infantry Regiment, Taranaki Battalion, next of kin was Charles Edward Bernard, Awakino Road, Dargaville. The Wellington Infantry Regiment, under Lieutenant Colonel William George Malone, on Sunday 25th April 1915 went ashore some two miles north-east of Gaba Tepe. A lovely calm and in nature a peaceful day, in which the 15 inch guns of the "Queen Elizabeth" could be heard at sixty miles distance bombarding forts at Sedd El Bahr. The British muddled around and not all the New Zealanders arrived on shore at once. Tools had been left on ships far out at sea.

Name : Bernard
Forenames : Arthur Casement
Initials : A C
Father: John Stanhope Bernard
Mother: Lucy Anne Morey
Date of Birth: Sun 26 Apr 1891
Date of death: Sun 08 Aug 1915

Nationality of the Regiment : New Zealand
Unit: Taranaki Sgt 10/783
Regiment: Wellington Regiment
Regiment description : Wellington Regiment, N.Z.E.F.
Regiment description 2 : Wellington Regt., N.Z.E.F.
Force : Army
Cemetery name: Chunuk Bair Memorial
Grave reference : 18.
Country : Turkey
Locality: Chunuk Bair Memorial stands on the north-west side of Chunuk Bair Cemetery, on the ridge which runs north-east from Brighton Beach. There is a road leading to Battleship Hill on one side and Koja Dere on the other, and on the further side of the road is a bank, surmounted by a long screen wall with a cross engraved on the raised centre.
Archive information : null
Visiting information: Information sheet on The Gallipoli Peninsula.

Historical information: The Memorial records on panels of Hopton Wood stone the names of over 800 officers and men of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force who died in 1915 and who have no known grave. The screen wall bears the following inscription: in memory of these officers, non-commissioned officers and men of the New Zealand expeditionary force who lost their lives in the heroic assault on the heights of Sari Bair, 6th-10th august, 1915, in the capture of Chunuk Bair, and in subsequent battles and operations from August to December, 1915, and who are not definitely recorded as buried in this or adjoining cemeteries. A little further north-west of the memorial is the monument which bears the words: in honour of the soldiers of the New Zealand expeditionary force. 8th August 1915. From the uttermost ends of the earth. Chunuk Bair was one of the main objectives in the Battle of Sari Bair (6th-10th August); it was to be reached by way of Rhododendron Spur, and the attack on Chunuk Bair itself was to be carried out by two columns of the New Zealand Infantry Brigade, starting from the outposts on the shore and proceeding up the Sazli Beit Dere and the Chailak Dere. Meanwhile the New Zealand Mounted Rifles were to clear the foothills. The Mounted Rifles cleared the foothills, including Bauchop's Hill (named from Lt. Col. A. Bauchop, C.M.G., commanding the Otago Mounted Rifles, who was mortally wounded in this action) and Table Top. The New Zealand Infantry reached Rhododendron Spur, where they were joined by the 10th Gurkha Rifles, from further North, and reinforced by the 8th Welch, the 7th Gloucesters, the Auckland Mounted Rifles, and the Maori Contingent. The Wellington Infantry and some of the Gloucesters and Welch (led by Lt. Col. W. G. Malone, commanding the Wellingtons, who was killed during the action) reached the summit, and were later joined by men of the Auckland Infantry and Mounted Rifles. These troops, after repulsing incessant Turkish attacks, were reinforced by the Otago Battalion and the Wellington Mounted Rifles; and the 6th Gurkhas and the 6th South Lancashire Regiment came in on the left, between Chunuk Bair and Hill "Q" The 6th Loyal North Lancashire Regiment relieved the force at Chunuk Bair on the evening of the 9th, and later part of the 5th Wilts came up; but on the morning of the 10th the position was taken by a determined and overwhelming counter-attack, carried out by a Turkish Army Corps under the personal superintendence of General Liman von Sanders, and led by Mustapha Kemal Pasha. The loss of Chunuk Bair marked the end of the effort to reach the central hills of the Peninsula. So far as this sector of the front was concerned, the line remained unaltered between Chunuk Bair and Rhododendron Spur until the evacuation in December, 1915. The infrequent cases in which New Zealand soldiers fell in the last four months of 1915 and could not be buried in a cemetery find their place on this Memorial. For the most part, the officers and men of the Wellington Regiment, the Auckland Regiment and the Auckland Mounted Rifles, commemorated here, fell on the 8th August; those of the Canterbury Regiment, on the 7th; those of the Wellington Mounted Rifles, on the 9th; and those of the other units, during the five days of the battle.

Military Record Detail KLN Parua Bay
Full Name: Lance Sergeant Arthur Casement Bernard
Rank Last Held: Lance Sergeant
Forename(s): Arthur Casement
Surname: Bernard
War: World War I, 1914-1918
Serial No.: 10/783
First Known Rank: Corporal
Next of Kin: Horace F. Bernard, Hawera, New Zealand
Marital Status: Single
Enlistment Address: Hawera, New Zealand
Military District: Wellington
Body on Embarkation: Main Body
Embarkation Unit: Wellington Infantry Battalion
Embarkation Date: 16 October 1914
Place of Embarkation: Wellington, New Zealand
Transport: HMNZT 7
HMNZT 10
Vessel: Limerick or Arawa
Destination: Suez, Egypt
Page on Nominal Roll: 51
Campaigns: Gallipoli
Last Unit Served: Wellington Infantry Regiment
Place of Death: Gallipoli, Turkey
Date of Death: 08 Aug 1915
Year of Death: 1915
Cause of Death: Killed in action
Memorial Name: Chunuk Bair (New Zealand) Memorial, Chunuk Bair Cemetery, Gallipoli, Turkey
Memorial Reference: 18
Description of Image: Portrait, Auckland Weekly News 1915
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Sources Used: Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume I. Wellington: Govt. Printer, 1914-1919