FRASER, Clyde Archibald
| Service Number: | 4312 |
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| Enlisted: | 24 August 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 12th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Launceston, Tasmania, Australia, 15 April 1897 |
| Home Town: | Launceston, Launceston, Tasmania |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Horse Driver |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Pozieres, France, 23 July 1916, aged 19 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Listed on Villers-Bretonneux Memorial but no known grave., Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, South Launceston State School Pictorial Honour Roll, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France) |
World War 1 Service
| 24 Aug 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4312 | |
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| 5 Jan 1916: | Involvement Private, 4312, 12th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Afric embarkation_ship_number: A19 public_note: '' | |
| 5 Jan 1916: | Embarked Private, 4312, 12th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Afric, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Virginia Leopold
Clyde Archibald Fraser was the son of Noah Archibald Fraser and Louisa Eleanor Weavell Fraser. Descendant from convict and bounty immigrants. On arrival in Egypt Clyde would succumb to the attraction of the girls entertaining the troops. Clyde would then spend 36 days hospitalised for the experience. He would rejoin his unit on 21 July 1916.
Under the cover of darkness Clyde would find himself in the Battle of Pozieres. Initially listed as MIA, Clyde's would be listed as killed in action 11 months later after an investigation by the Australian Wounded & Missing Enquiry Board.
Witnesses would state that Clyde received a shrapnel wound to the chest at about 9.30am on the first day of the battle.
He died in a field on a farm and his remains were never recovered but he is remembered by his family. He was my grandmother's brother.
Lest we forget.
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