CLEARY, Samuel
| Service Number: | 2882 |
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| Enlisted: | 2 October 1916, 3 years Senior Cadets |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 46th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Barnsley, Yorkshire, England, February 1877 |
| Home Town: | Broadmeadows, Clarence Valley, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Quarryman |
| Died: | Wounds, No.3 Canadian Stationery Hospital, France, 5 April 1918 |
| Cemetery: |
Doullens Communal Cemetery Extension No.1 Plot VI, Row D, Grave No. 26 |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Hamilton War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 2 Oct 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2882, 46th Infantry Battalion, 3 years Senior Cadets | |
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| 17 Nov 1916: | Involvement Private, 2882, 46th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '19' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: SS Port Napier embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
| 17 Nov 1916: | Embarked Private, 2882, 46th Infantry Battalion, SS Port Napier, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Let us remember a Fallen soldier of The Great War memorialised at Sandgate Cemetery.
106 years ago today, on the 5th April 1918, Private Samuel Cleary, 46th Battalion (Reg No-2882), quarryman (1st Class), from Young Road, Broadmeadow, New South Wales, father of two (William B and Samuel Joseph), Died of Wounds at No.3 Canadian Stationery Hospital (SW left thigh, compound fracture of left arm & femur), age 40.
Born at Barnsley, Yorkshire, England about 1878 as CLAREY to Benjamin and Emma Elizabeth Cleary nee Wallace; husband of Martha Ellen Elizabeth Cleary nee Turner (married 1900, Newcastle, N.S.W., remarried to Alexander J Carruthers 1921, Hamilton, N.S.W., Martha died 30.7.1944, age 62) of 154 Lindsay Street, Hamilton, N.S.W. and 19 Pokolbin Road, Hamilton West, N.S.W. and Minola Street, Hamilton, N.S.W. and 14 Scott Street, Newcastle, N.S.W., Sam enlisted on the 2nd October 1916 at Newcastle, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board SS Port Napier on the 17th November 1916.
Granted leave to England from 4.2.1918 to 21.2.1918.
Wounded in action - 5.4.1918 (SW left thigh & left arm, compound fracture, First Battle of Villers-Bretonneux).
Sam is resting at Doullens Communal Cemetery Extension No 1, France. Plot VI Row D Grave 26.
Place of Association - Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.
Mr. Cleary’s name has been inscribed on the Hamilton Municipal District Roll of Honor, Hamilton (Gregson Park) War Memorial, Hamilton Superior Public School Roll of Honor - http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article140980720, Hamilton St. Peter's Anglican Church Honor Roll, Newcastle Loyal Union Lodge Manchester Unity I.O.O.F. Roll of Honour, Book of Gold and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall.
I have placed poppies at the memorialised Cleary gravesite in remembrance of the service and supreme sacrifice of their son Sam for God, King & Country. ANGLICAN 1-08. 113.
Brother-in-law to Reginald John Turner (born 1896, Newcastle, N.S.W. to William George and Annie Turner, storeman (Sorby & Company), from 22 Laman Street, Cooks Hill, New South Wales, enlisted 29.2.1916, 36th Battalion, Reg No-584, DOW 7.6.1917, Battle of Messines, age 21, resting at Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension, France. Plot III Row B Grave 271), memorialised at parent's gravesite at the cemetery. CATHOLIC 1-07. 101. Photos 6 – 9.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article140974652 - Roll of Honour, 1918, Reg.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered “
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/
Lest We Forget.
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