WHITCOMBE, Clive Lithgow
| Service Number: | 1718 |
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| Enlisted: | 29 September 1916, Adelaide, SA |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 43rd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Lithgow, New South Wales, Australia, 20 February 1895 |
| Home Town: | Mount Barker, Adelaide Hills, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Mount Gambier High School |
| Occupation: | Bank Clerk |
| Memorials: | Adelaide National Australia Bank WW1 Honour Board, Mount Barker Soldiers' Memorial Hospital Roll of Honor, Mount Gambier High School Great War Roll of Honor |
World War 1 Service
| 9 Jun 1916: | Involvement Private, 1718, 43rd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '18' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Afric embarkation_ship_number: A19 public_note: '' | |
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| 9 Jun 1916: | Embarked Private, 1718, 43rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Afric, Adelaide | |
| 29 Sep 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1718, 43rd Infantry Battalion, Adelaide, SA |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Graeme Roulstone
1718 Clive Lithgow WITCOMBE was born at Lithgow, NSW, on 20 February 1895 and was enrolled at Mount Gambier High School on 1 February 1909 by his guardian, Edgar James Price, bank manager, of Mount Gambier. He left the school on 1 November 1911. He enlisted in Adelaide on 29 September 1915 (20, bank clerk, single Church of England) naming his mother, Mrs Eliza Catherine Witcombe of Mount Barker, as his next of kin. He embarked from Adelaide on the ‘Afric’ on 9 June 1916 as a reinforcement to the 43rd Battalion, disembarked at Port Said 12 July 1916, and after a short stay in Egypt, embarked at Alexandria on the ‘Megantic’ on 6 August 1916. Throughout 1916 and 1917 he was frequently hospitalised throughout before leaving England for return to Australia on 4 May 1917 on the ‘Miltiades’ from Devonport, disembarked on 1 July, and was discharged ‘medically unfit’ from the AIF as a result of debility on 8 August 1917.
Published in Ours: the origins and early years of Mount Gambier High School and Old Scholars who served in the Great European War by Graeme Roulstone
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