Percival CLEMENS

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CLEMENS, Percival

Service Number:	32342
Enlisted:	9 October 1916, Melbourne
Last Rank:	Gunner
Last Unit:	14th Field Artillery Brigade
Born:	Beechworth, Victoria, Australia, 1893
Home Town:	St Kilda, Port Phillip, Victoria
Schooling:	Beechworth State School & Beechworth College
Occupation:	Civil Servant
Died:	Multiple shell wounds, Corbie, France, 21 April 1918
Cemetery:	Vignacourt British Cemetery, Picardie I D 8
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Beechworth Methodist Church Honour Roll, Beechworth Shire WW1 Honour Roll, Beechworth War Memorial

World War 1 Service

9 Oct 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Gunner, 32342, 14th Field Artillery Brigade , Melbourne
14 Feb 1917:	Involvement Gunner, 32342, 14th Field Artillery Brigade , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '4' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: RMS Osterley embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: ''
14 Feb 1917:	Embarked Gunner, 32342, 14th Field Artillery Brigade , RMS Osterley, Melbourne
19 Apr 1918:	Wounded AIF WW1, Gunner, 32342, 14th Field Artillery Brigade , German Spring Offensive 1918, Corbie, Multiple shell wounds to lower abdomen and legs from short shell of own artillery.

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Biography contributed by Elizabeth Allen

Percival CLEMENS was born in Beechworth, Victoria in 1893

His parents were James CLEMENS & Catherine NICHOLLS

Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

CLEMENS.- In sad and loving memory of my dear son and our brother, Gunner Percival Clemens, who died of wounds received in France, April 21, 1918.
He feared no death when honour
Summoned him to Britain's aid;
Now he rests in shrouds of glory,
Every debt of honour paid.
-(Inserted by his sorrowing mother, sisters, and brothers.)

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