CLARKE, Henry Alfred
| Service Numbers: | Not yet discovered |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Unit: | Australian Army Chaplains' Department |
| Born: | London, England, 1885 |
| Home Town: | Woollahra, Woollahra, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Roman Catholic Priest |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 14 Mar 1916: | Involvement Australian Army Chaplains' Department, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '1' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Anchises embarkation_ship_number: A68 public_note: '' | |
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| 14 Mar 1916: | Embarked Australian Army Chaplains' Department, HMAT Anchises, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Sharyn Roberts
News has been received that Chaplain the Rev. Father H. A. Clarke,
O.F.M., has arrived with the Australians, and is now somewhere in France (says the "Catholic Press"). He sends his best wishes to all his friends in Sydney, and says that he is in the best of health. Father Clarke was the life of the transport. He made himself invaluable by teaching French to the officers, and those of the men who desired it, and Tommy Cornstalk in that division will be able to make his wants known, to the"marchands de tabac," and other necessary commodities, without the necessity for Indulging In "sign esperanto."
Southern Cross Friday 16 June 1916 page 3
Biography contributed by Faithe Jones
Resigned Commission in England 03 April 1917
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