Remembrance 2020: Arthur Leaning Miscamble

Arthur Leaning Miscamble served with the Special Reinforcement 1st Australian General Hospital.

The hospital was established at Rouen in April 1916 and remained there until the end of hostilities. It was predominantly a tented hospital with a capacity for 750 patients.

By the end of the war 90,298 patients had passed through its wards.

A member of Roma LOL, Miscamble survived the war and returned to his job as a coachbuilder, becoming Mayor of Roma in the 1930s.