Claude Lyndon IRVINE

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IRVINE, Claude Lyndon

Service Number:	10500
Enlisted:	6 August 1915
Last Rank:	Gunner
Last Unit:	1st Field Artillery Brigade
Born:	Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia, 15 August 1890
Home Town:	Broken Hill, Broken Hill Municipality, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Mine surveyor
Died:	1973, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Not yet discovered
Memorials:	Broken Hill Rifle Club Honour Roll

World War 1 Service

6 Aug 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Gunner, 10500, 1st Divisional Ammunition Column
5 Jan 1916:	Involvement Gunner, 10500, 1st Divisional Ammunition Column, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '22' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Afric embarkation_ship_number: A19 public_note: ''
5 Jan 1916:	Embarked Gunner, 10500, 1st Divisional Ammunition Column, HMAT Afric, Melbourne
15 May 1916:	Transferred AIF WW1, Gunner, 21st Field Artillery (Howitzer) Brigade
24 Jan 1917:	Transferred AIF WW1, Gunner, 1st Field Artillery Brigade

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Biography contributed by Stephen Brooks

His younger brother, 105 Lce. Cpl. Geoffry Ransom Irvine 3rd Field Company Engineers was killed in action at Gallipoli 31 July 1915, aged 21.

Later in the war Claude was awarded a Military Medal when, ‘at Westhoek in Belgium, on 3 October 1917, he showed gallantry and devotion to duty in repairing telephone lines cut by shell fire. On this occasion he started with another man (although he was told he could rest if he liked) to repair the line under heavy shell fire. He was wounded during the work.’

Claude returned to Australia 4 July 1919.

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