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CLARK, Charles Thomas
| Service Number: | 3214 |
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| Enlisted: | 19 July 1915, at Blackboy Hill |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 43rd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Port Augusta, South Australia, August 1884 |
| Home Town: | Collie, Collie, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Plumber |
| Died: | South Australia, 30 October 1962, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 19 Jul 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3214, 32nd Infantry Battalion, at Blackboy Hill | |
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| 27 Jun 1916: | Involvement Private, 3214, 32nd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Malakuta embarkation_ship_number: A57 public_note: '' | |
| 27 Jun 1916: | Embarked Private, 3214, 32nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Malakuta, Adelaide | |
| 23 Sep 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 43rd Infantry Battalion | |
| 9 Jun 1917: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 3214, 43rd Infantry Battalion, Battle of Messines, Wounded in action France (Gunshot wound neck) ex 9th Field Ambulance ex Division Rest Station | |
| 25 May 1918: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 3214, 43rd Infantry Battalion, German Spring Offensive 1918, Wounded in Action France ( Gassed ) ex 49th Casualty Clearing Station | |
| 26 Aug 1918: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 3214, 43rd Infantry Battalion, "The Last Hundred Days", Wounded in Action France ( Gunshot Wound Right Knee ) ex 55th Field Ambulance ex 5th Casualty Clearing Station | |
| 11 Nov 1918: | Involvement Private, 3214, 43rd Infantry Battalion | |
| 14 Aug 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, 3214, Discharged from Service |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Adelaide Botanic High School
Charles Thomas Clark, born in Port Augusta, South Australia, in approximately August 1884 as the son of his mother, Harriett Stokes and loving father, John Clark. In Clark's adult life, he worked as a humble plumber and enlisted in the 32nd Battalion on July 13th, 1915 at the age of 30 and 11 months. Through research there was a disovery stating the name of Clark's wife (Alice Frances Whitehead); they must have married after the war as Clark was single when he enlisted.
Clark transferred to the 43rd Battalion and was wounded in the neck at Messines in June 1917. He soon recovered but was injured a second time (not in action) on 31 July 1917, suffering a broken patella. He was wounded again in May 1918, this time by gas, and suffered his third wound in action on 26 August 1918, on his right knee.
In Clarks time in war he had endured numerous painful injuries however, lived on until the 29th of June, 1919 when Charles Thomas Clark Disembarked Australia and was finally Discharged from service on the 14th of August, 1919 to return home.