WESTON, Clive Conder
| Service Number: | 536 |
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| Enlisted: | 24 August 1914, Kensington, New South Wales |
| Last Rank: | Staff Sergeant (CQMS) |
| Last Unit: | 1st Light Horse Regiment |
| Born: | Coonamble, New South Wales, 1 May 1875 |
| Home Town: | Bourke, Bourke, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Stock & Station Agent |
| Died: | Self Inflicted Wound (Razor cut to throat), Bourke, New South Wales, 17 October 1922, aged 47 years |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Parkes District Roll of Honor |
World War 1 Service
| 24 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Kensington, New South Wales | |
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| 20 Oct 1914: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 536, 1st Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '1' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Star of Victoria embarkation_ship_number: A16 public_note: '' | |
| 20 Oct 1914: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 536, 1st Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Star of Victoria, Sydney | |
| 26 Jul 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Staff Sergeant (CQMS), 536, 1st Light Horse Regiment | |
| 20 Mar 1918: | Discharged AIF WW1 |
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"DANGEROUSLY WOUNDED.
On Saturday Mrs. H. H. Balcombe of Coradgery, received a cable to the effect that her brother Sergeant Clive C. Weston, 1st. Light Horse Brigade, had been dangerously wounded at the Dardanelles. The cablegram stated that Sergeant Weston had been wounded in the head and was lying at the hospital at Malta. We sincerely hope the patient will make a good recovery." - from the Parkes Western Champion 02 Sep 1915 (nla.gov.au)
"CASUALTIES. MAN WITH THROAT CUT. BOURKE, Tuesday.
This morning the landlady of the Central Australian Hotel saw a lodger named Clive C. Weston, aged about 48, come out of his bedroom with his throat cut and wrists gashed. She called a doctor and the police who promptly attended, but Weston died in about a quarter of an hour. Weston was once a clerk of petty sessions and was stationed at Bourke 17 years ago. He has lately been employed on his brother's station at Wangamana." - from the Sydney Morning Herald 18 Oct 1922 (nla.gov.au)
"Sensational Suicide.
On Tuesday morning last at 11 a.m. a man named Clive C. Weston committed suicide at Bradstreet's Central Australian Hotel, by cutting his throat with a razor. The deceased was found in the hallway between a row of bedrooms in a pool of blood by a waitress, and expired half an hour later. The bedroom of the deceased was also stained with blood in many places. The Coroner (Mr. A. Knox Poolman) gave an order for the burial of the deceased after the Medical Officer had made an examination, and the deceased was buried on Wednesday morning. The deceased was on a visit to the town, having acted as C. P. S. in Bourke in the years 1902 till 1905. He took part in the South African War and also the late War, and as a result of the recent war was suffering from shell shock. He was 48 years of age." - from the Bourke Western Herald 21 Oct 1922 (nla.gov.au)
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