HUNTLEY, Clive Neilson Reynolds
| Service Number: | Officer |
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| Enlisted: | 26 September 1914 |
| Last Rank: | Lieutenant |
| Last Unit: | 1st Field Company Engineers |
| Born: | Gosford, New South Wales, Australia , 14 March 1885 |
| Home Town: | Balmain, Leichhardt, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Cleve Street School, Sydney Technical College, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Engineering Draughtsman |
| Died: | Died of wounds, Gallipoli, 4 May 1915, aged 30 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" |
| Memorials: | Balmain War Memorial, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board, Lone Pine Memorial to the Missing |
World War 1 Service
| 26 Sep 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant, Officer, 1st Field Company Engineers | |
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| 18 Oct 1914: | Involvement 1st Field Company Engineers, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '5' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Afric embarkation_ship_number: A19 public_note: '' | |
| 18 Oct 1914: | Embarked 1st Field Company Engineers, HMAT Afric, Sydney | |
| 4 May 1915: | Involvement Lieutenant, 1st Field Company Engineers, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: awm_unit: 1st Field Company, Australian Engineers awm_rank: Lieutenant awm_died_date: 1915-05-04 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of Leonard and Ethel HUNTLEY, 1 Wharf Road, Snail's Bay, Balmain, Sydney
Biography contributed by John Oakes
Clive Neilson Reynolds HUNTLEY was born on 14th March 1885.
Huntley commenced work as an engineering draftsman in the Permanent Way Branch of the NSW Government Railways on the 29th August 1907. At the time of his appointment he was already qualified in that trade as he had completed an apprenticeship with the firm of Waugh & Josephson.
He joined the ‘Australian Expeditionary Forces’ on 18th August 1914, almost as soon as the war had been declared. He had been a member of the Militia, the 6th Field Company of Australian Engineers. His application for a commission on 1st September 1914 includes the information that he had been ‘provisionally appointed as a 2nd Lieutenant on 24th September 1913. Owing to postponement of examination has not been able to sit for examination.’
He was single, lived in Balmain, and gave his father as his next of kin.
He left Australia through Sydney aboard HMAT ‘Afric’ on 18th October 1914. By March 1915 he is recorded as ‘proceeding to join M.E.F. [Mediterranean Expeditionary Force] Alexandria.’ He was allotted to the 1st Field Company of Australian Engineers and had been promoted to Lieutenant on 1st February 1915. He landed at Gallipoli on Anzac Day or soon after . By the first days of May he had been evacuated, severely wounded, to the Hospital Ship ‘Gascon’, where he died on 4th May 1915.
In accordance with normal procedures he was buried at sea, between Gallipoli and Alexandria, on the day of his death. The service was conducted by the Chaplain, Lieutenant Colonel Hugo. As with all other soldiers buried at sea as a result of the Gallipoli Campaign, Huntley is remembered on the Lone Pine Memorial high above Anzac Cove.
- based on the Australian War Memorial Honour Roll and notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board.
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