FITZJOHN, Claude Samuel
| Service Number: | 2660 |
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| Enlisted: | 26 April 1916, Sydney, New South Wales |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 53rd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Carcoar, New South Wales, 6 July 1893 |
| Home Town: | Dulwich Hill, Marrickville, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Canterbury State School |
| Occupation: | Dental operator |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Peronne, France, 1 September 1918, aged 25 years |
| Cemetery: |
Peronne Communal Cemetery Extension Peronne Communal Cemetery Extension, Peronne, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 26 Apr 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2660, Sydney, New South Wales | |
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| 7 Oct 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 2660, 53rd Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '19' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Ceramic embarkation_ship_number: A40 public_note: '' | |
| 7 Oct 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 2660, 53rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ceramic, Sydney | |
| 26 Sep 1917: | Involvement Private, 2660, 53rd Infantry Battalion, Polygon Wood | |
| 1 Sep 1918: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 2660, 53rd Infantry Battalion, Mont St Quentin / Peronne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by John Edwards
"Claude was born in 1893 at Carcoar in the Pennant Hills area of New South Wales. His parents were Samuel and Sarah Lee Fitzjohn . Samuel was a railway worker at Binalong for the GSWR. One of six children, (four sisters and a brother who died as an infant before Claude was born) he was educated at Canterbury school and afterwards trained as a dental operator.
Enlisting in the Army at Sydney he was sent to France with 53rd battalion AIF (C company 12th platoon) where he met his end at the battle of the Somme. His sergeant reported the circumstances of his death as follows:-
On 1/9/1918 the battalion was in section at Peronne . They hopped over at 6 am. Immediately before the hop over Fitzjohn looked over the top of the trench when he was next to private L Hill and was hit by a bullet in the head." - SOURCE (www.findagrave.com)
Biography contributed by John Edwards
The son of Samuel and Sarah. His father noted on his Roll of Honour circular, "he was an only son, and the last and only male of his generation of the family"
His mother Sarah died from pneumonia at Dripstone, NSW, on 13 Aug 1895 when Jack was still an infant and his four sisters were under 10. His father Samuel remarried two years layer to Ada in 1897.
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