John Frederick (Fred) CLOVER

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CLOVER, John Frederick

Service Numbers:	1035, V271112
Enlisted:	7 June 1915
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	6th Light Horse Regiment
Born:	Birchip, Victoria, Australia , 25 July 1897
Home Town:	Ouyen, Mildura Shire, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 15 April 1985, aged 87 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Castlemaine General Cemetery, Victoria The Victorian Garden of Remembrance
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World War 1 Service

7 Jun 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1035, 8th Light Horse Regiment
23 Sep 1915:	Involvement Private, 1035, 8th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '2' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Malakuta embarkation_ship_number: A57 public_note: ''
23 Sep 1915:	Embarked Private, 1035, 8th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Malakuta, Melbourne
6 Sep 1919:	Embarked AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 1035, 8th Light Horse Regiment, embarked England for Melbourne on board HT Euripides
19 Nov 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 1035, 6th Light Horse Regiment

World War 2 Service

16 Apr 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , V271112
16 Apr 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V271112
8 Aug 1944:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , V271112

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Lance Corporal John Frederick Clover (Service No:1035) enlisted in the AIF on 7 June 1915 and was a Private attached to 8th Light Horse Regiment on 23 September 1915 when he embarked with his Unit from Melbourne for Egypt on board HMAT A57 Malakuta. Promoted to Lance Corporal in 1919, he served with 8th Light Horse Regiment in Egypt and France, embarking from England for Melbourne on 6 September 1919 on board HT Euripides. L/Corporal Clover was attached to 8th Light Horse Regiment at Discharge on 19 November 1919. He served in the ACMF in WWII (Service No:V271112) in New Guinea. Son Jack was KiA in New Guinea in WWII.

Fred was born in Birchip, Victoria in 1897, second of seven children of William Clover (b1859 at Indented Head, Victoria) and Margaret Anne Ah King (b1876 in Landsborough, Victoria). William was a Farmer in Salbert, Swan Hill, Victoria in 1894 when he and Margaret married in Birchip, where they settled and raised their family and William was a Farmer. By 1909 the family had moved to Ouyen, where William was a Farmer.

Fred was a member of the Ouyen Rifle Club and a Farmer when he enlisted in the AIF in 1915. Following his Discharge, he was a Labourer in Mildura in 1921 when he married his first wife, Annie (Nellie) Eleanor Hancock (b1897 in Ballarat, Victoria). Fred and Nellie married in Ouyen, where they settled and raised their family and Fred worked as a Labourer and Telephone Lineman. Following Nellie's death in 1938, William remarried in 1939 in Castlemaine to Gertrude Elizabeth Maddern (nee Innes; b1904 in Ballarat, Victoria). Following William's Discharge from the Army in WWII, he and Gertrude settled in Melbourne, where William worked as a Telephone Lineman and Labourer. Gertrude died in 1967 and William in 1985.

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