AFFLECK, Clyde Edgar
| Service Number: | 58051 |
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| Enlisted: | 28 May 1918, Toowoomba, Queensland |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 1st to 8th (QLD) Reinforcements |
| Born: | Killarney, Queensland, Australia , 17 May 1898 |
| Home Town: | Warwick, Southern Downs, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Mountain View State School |
| Occupation: | Postman |
| Died: | Died of Illness (Influenza), Sierra Leone, Sierra Leone, West Africa, 27 October 1918, aged 20 years |
| Cemetery: |
Freetown (King Tom) Cemetery, Sierra Leone 2 E 7, |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Killarney War Memorial, Postmaster-General's Dept Qld. WWI, Warwick War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 28 May 1918: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 58051, 1st to 8th (QLD) Reinforcements, Toowoomba, Queensland | |
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| 4 Sep 1918: |
Involvement
AIF WW1, Private, 58051, 1st to 8th (QLD) Reinforcements, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '20' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Bakara embarkation_ship_number: A41 public_note: '' |
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| 4 Sep 1918: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 58051, 1st to 8th (QLD) Reinforcements, HMAT Bakara, Sydney | |
| 27 Oct 1918: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 58051, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 58051 awm_unit: Australian Reinforcement awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1918-10-27 |
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"...58051 Private Clyde Edgar Affleck, a postman from Killarney, Qld, who joined the AIF on 21 May 1918. Pte Affleck embarked on HMAT Bakara (A41) with the 6th General Reinforcements in Sydney on 4 September 1918 bound for England by way of the Cape of Good Hope. On 17 October 1918 he was admitted to the ships hospital with pneumonia and was disembarked on 25 October 1918 at Freetown, Sierra Leone, and admitted to the Military Hospital where he died on 27 October 1918 of influenza. Pte Affleck was buried in the Naval and Military Cemetery, King Tom, Sierra Leone. He was 20 years old." - SOURCE (www.awm.gov.au)
Biography contributed by Elizabeth Allen
Clyde Edgar AFFLECK was born on 17th May, 1898 at Killarney, Queensland
His parents were John Peter AFFLECK & Euphemia Smith WATSON
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