Clifford Osborne HENSHAW

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HENSHAW, Clifford Osborne

Service Number:	6794
Enlisted:	20 September 1916
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	6th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Zeehan, Tasmania, Australia, 23 July 1893
Home Town:	Zeehan, West Coast, Tasmania
Schooling:	Zeehan State School, Tasmania, Australia
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Died of wounds, France, 23 August 1918, aged 25 years
Cemetery:	Heath Cemetery, Picardie, France
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Carrum War Memorial, Nar Nar Goon Carrum Honour Roll

World War 1 Service

20 Sep 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 6794, 6th Infantry Battalion
25 Oct 1916:	Involvement Private, 6794, 6th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: ''
25 Oct 1916:	Embarked Private, 6794, 6th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ulysses, Melbourne

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Private Clifford Osborne Henshaw (Service No:6794) enlisted in the AIF on 20 September 1916 and embarked from Melbourne with 6th Infantry Battalion on 25 October 1916 on board HMAT Ulysses A38. In France (near Harbonnieres) on 23 August 1918, Private Henshaw Died of Wounds - GSW to his right leg and was buried at Lone Farm Cemetery near Harbonnieres - his tombstone is at Heath Cemetery. Included in his personal effects were a rosary and testament, a brooch and damaged gold ring and letters and photos. Siblings Melville and Ralph also served in WWI.

Born in 1893 in Zeehan Tasmania, Clifford was the second of six children of John Henshaw (b1863 in New Norfolk, Tasmania) and Elizabeth Mary Woodward (b1865 in Port Cygnet, Tasmania). John (a Labourer) and Elizabeth married in 1890 in Hobart, Tasmania and settled in Zeehan where they raised their family.

In 1915 Clifford was a Labourer in Melbourne Victoria when he married Zilla Crook (b1897 in Melbourne, Victoria). Clifford and Zilla moved to Zeehan, Tasmania and following Clifford's death Zilla and their two children settled in Melbourne where Zillah later remarried. In 1919 Zilla inserted a Memorium in the Zeehan and Dundas Herald on behalf of herself, her Father-in-Law John and her two children:

'Our loved one is sleeping his long last sleep

And his grave I may never see

But some gentle hand in that far distant land

May plant a small flower for me.

And our hearts must ache in this waiting time,

For the day that used to be;

For a bidden smile and a Face and form

That we loved so much to see'

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