Captain Arthur Thomas Drinkwater DFC (3 February 1894 – 1972), was an Australian-born First World War flying ace.
He was assigned Regimental Number 2842 and posted initially to the 7th Field Company Engineers, seemingly marked for cadre duty.
[9] A month later, on 3 July 1919, he departed England for Australia on the Prinz Hubertus; he was expressly manifested as not part of the Australian Imperial Force.
[note 1] He held a farm in Annuello,[13] north of Manangatang in the Mallee, as part of the soldier settlement scheme for returned veterans.
Arthur Drinkwater was made honorary secretary of the Green Mallee Council, a group of settlers who lobbied the Closer Settlement Board with the aim of gaining compensation for those settlers who were forced off their blocks through drought and of blocks which were re-allocated due to the original allocations being too small being marginal land.
The hall was the venue for the towns first school as well as church services, public meetings of the various local organisations (including the RAOB) and the popular Saturday night dances where he sang with such talent to be regular and well received performer.