WITCOMBE, Clive Lithgow
| Service Number: | V81289 |
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| Enlisted: | 9 October 1939 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | LITHGOW, NSW, 20 February 1896 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 2 Service
| 9 Oct 1939: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V81289 | |
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| 28 Oct 1940: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V81289 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Graeme Roulstone
1718 Clive Lithgow WITCOMBE was born at Lithgow, NSW, on 20 February 1895 and was enrolled at Mount Gambier High School on 1 February 1909 by his guardian, Edgar James Price, bank manager, of Mount Gambier. He left the school on 1 November 1911.
He enlisted in Adelaide on 29 September 1915 (20, bank clerk, single Church of England) naming his mother, Mrs Eliza Catherine Witcombe of Mount Barker, as his next of kin. He embarked from Adelaide on the ‘Afric’ on 9 June 1916 as a reinforcement to the 43rd Battalion, disembarked at Port Said 12 July 1916, and after a short stay in Egypt, embarked at Alexandria on the ‘Megantic’ on 6 August 1916. Throughout 1916 and 1917 he was frequently hospitalised throughout before leaving England for return to Australia on 4 May 1917 on the ‘Miltiades’ from Devonport, disembarked on 1 July, and was discharged ‘medically unfit’ from the AIF as a result of debility on 8 August 1917.