SANDS, Clive Chisholm
| Service Number: | 391 |
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| Enlisted: | 16 March 1915, An original of A Company |
| Last Rank: | Second Lieutenant |
| Last Unit: | No. 2 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps |
| Born: | Randwick, New South Wales, Australia, 2 November 1893 |
| Home Town: | Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Engineering student |
| Died: | 1966, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 1 Service
| 16 Mar 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 391, 17th Infantry Battalion, An original of A Company | |
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| 12 May 1915: | Involvement Private, 391, 17th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Themistocles embarkation_ship_number: A32 public_note: '' | |
| 12 May 1915: | Embarked Private, 391, 17th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Themistocles, Sydney | |
| 14 May 1917: | Transferred AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant, No. 2 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Enlisted in February, 1915, and sailed with the original 17th Battalion. Landed at Gallipoli in July and was attached to Royal Naval Service at Imbros from August, 1915, to February, 1916, when returned to 17th Battalion in Egypt. Crossing with it to France in April, served at Bois Grenier, Somme, Ypres and Somme II, being sent to England for flying training 2nd December 1916 and commissioned in May, 1917. Sands joined 32nd Squadron R.F.C. in France in July but returned to 2nd A.F.C. in England in August 1917 taking an advance party of that squadron to France in September. Flew at Battles of Cambrai and Passchendaele but returned to England in February, 1918, remaining there flying till demobilisation. Promoted lieutenant, 14th August, 1917.
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