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HOLDER, Clement Gladstone
| Service Numbers: | R18986, 18986 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Gunner |
| Last Unit: | 1st to 6th (SA) Reinforcements |
| Born: | Norwood, South Australia, Australia, 1899 |
| Home Town: | Adelaide, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Engineering Student / Medical Student |
| Memorials: | Adelaide High School Honour Board, Kent Town Wesleyan Methodist Church WW1 Honour Roll, Norwood Primary School Honour Board |
World War 1 Service
| 1 May 1918: | Involvement Private, R18986, 1st to 6th (SA) Reinforcements, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '20' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: '' | |
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| 1 May 1918: | Embarked Private, R18986, 1st to 6th (SA) Reinforcements, HMAT Euripides, Sydney | |
| 11 Nov 1918: | Involvement Gunner, 18986 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Adelaide Botanic High School
Clement Gladstone Holder was born in 1899 in Norwood, South Australia. Clement Gladstone Holder was raised by his mother Lady Julia Holder and father J. N. Holder on 50 Sydenham Road. He lived with his three brothers, all of whom were older than him. Before the war, Clement was an engineering and medical student and an Air Force Cadet, where he’d served a for year after four years as a sea cadet. Clement's appearance description on his enlistment form describes him as a five-foot-eight man with light brown hair, blue eyes, and weighing seventy-five kilograms. Clement was a methodist. Clement enlisted in the Australian Military Forces on the 12th of February 1917.
After enlisting, Clement Holder was sent to Mitcham to train. As he was only 18 at enlistment Julia Holder sent the Australian Military Forces a note of consent to ensure that Clement would not serve on the battlefields until he was 19. He initially opposed her mother’s order but eventually accepted it. He was training in Mitcham for months until he was placed with the AAMC (Australian Army Medical Corps). He embarked aboard Hospital Ship Karoola which would take him to England. He would be at sea for fifty-four grueling days before he finally arrived in Avonmouth, a small port town west of Bristol.
Clement re-embarked on H.S. Karoola on the 23rd of January 1918. He would stay at sea for two months before disembarking in Melbourne. He was transferred to a combatant unit at his request.
After many months in Australia training with his combatant unit, Clement was transported to Sydney, where he embarked on the HMAT A14 Euripides on the 1st of May 1918. He would travel on the HMAT Euripides for forty-five days before he was transferred to the HMS Teutonic in New York City. He would spend another nineteen days before he finally disembarked in Liverpool. Clement was be assigned to the 43rd Battalion. He had a TOS (Taken on Strength) to the 3rd Field Artillery Brigade from his 43rd Battalion on the 28th of August. He served in the Artillery Details as a gunner.
Clement would train at a depot for months until his unit was called for fighting. Clement’s unit would travel from Dover, a small town on the south-eastern tip of England to Rouelles, a small region south-east of Paris. In Rouelles, he continued to fight for months.
Clement returned to England after fighting in France and embarked aboard the troopship Andhises on the 28th of February 1919 on his journey back to Australia. He would be at sea for months before he disembarked in Adelaide on the 11th of April 1919.
He is remembered on a Methodist church honour board.