CLARKE, Raymond James
| Service Number: | 2792 |
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| Enlisted: | 25 June 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 37th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Prahran, Victoria, Australia, 26 February 1885 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Egg Chandler |
| Died: | Murray Bridge Memorial Hospital, South Australia, 20 February 1956, aged 70 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Murray Bridge (Adelaide Road) Cemetery, S.A. Eleventh Drive, Plot 359 |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 25 Jun 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, 2792, 37th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 16 Dec 1916: | Involvement Private, 2792, 37th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Medic embarkation_ship_number: A7 public_note: '' | |
| 16 Dec 1916: | Embarked Private, 2792, 37th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Medic, Melbourne | |
| 9 Apr 1918: | Wounded AIF WW1, 2792, 37th Infantry Battalion, Gun shot wounds to his thigh, head and left eye. He was blinded in the left eye as a result of this wound. | |
| 10 Jan 1920: | Discharged AIF WW1, 2792, 37th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Paul Lemar
Raymond was born at Prahran, Victoria on 26.02.1885 to James Patrick CLARKE (1860-1943) and Fanny WHITTAKER (1855-1935).
Raymond married Alice Elizabeth BRYANT at 101 Gore St, Fitzroy on 04.08.1908 and they had 6 children.
Raymond joined the AIF on 06.12.1916 at Seymour, Victoria. He was 28 years and 11 months at the time of his enlistment and his next of kin was his wife Alice Elizabeth CLARKE of 145 Napier St, Fitzroy.
He was allocated service no. 2792 and posted to the 6th reinforcements of the 37th Battalion.
He proceeded overseas, arriving in England on 18.02.1917. The battalion travelled to France on 10.09.1917. He had a number of hospital admissions for illness and was then wounded in action suffering a number of gunshot/shrapnel wounds on 09.04.1918.
He was returned to England for treatment. He had wounds to his thigh, head and left eye. He was blinded in the left eye as a result of this wound.
He returned to Australia on 20.10.1919 and was discharged as medically unfit on 10.01.1920.
Raymond died on 20.02.1956 at the Murray Bridge Soldiers Memorial Hospital after a very long illness.
He was buried by a Carer Returned Soldiers section.
For 68 years he laid in an unmarked grave in the Murray Bridge Cemetery until his grave was identified by the Headstone Project of South Australia.
His grave was marked by an official OAWG full commemoration on 25.05.2024
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