FLEMING, Clifford Francis
| Service Number: | 1944 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 4th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Cobden, Victoria, Australia, 1891 |
| Home Town: | Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Tramway Lineman |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 25 July 1916 |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France) |
World War 1 Service
| 13 Apr 1915: | Involvement Private, 1944, 4th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Kyarra embarkation_ship_number: A55 public_note: '' | |
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| 13 Apr 1915: | Embarked Private, 1944, 4th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Kyarra, Sydney |
Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board
Clifford FLEMING, (Service Number 1944) born in 1891 in Cobden, Victoria, joined the Tramways in Sydney as a lineman’s labourer in May 1913. In January 1915, granted leave to enlist in the AIF at Liverpool, he stated his ‘trade or calling’ as ‘surveyor’s chainman’, and gave his full name as ‘Clifford Francis Fleming’.
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Between 22 and 27 July 1916 (later fixed as 25 July) he was killed in action in France and buried at a map reference ‘in the vicinity of Pozières’. The grave could not be located later, and he is remembered with honour on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial.
Submitted 6 July 2023 by John Oakes
Biography contributed by John Oakes
Clifford FLEMING (Service Number 1944) was born in 1891 in Cobden, Victoria. He joined the Tramways in Sydney as a lineman’s labourer in May 1913.
In January 1915 he was granted leave to enlist in the AIF at Liverpool, he stated his ‘trade or calling’ as ‘surveyor’s chainman’, and gave his full name as ‘Clifford Francis Fleming’.
He embarked from Sydney in April 1915.
He joined the 4th Battalion at Gallipoli in June. He was evacuated to Egypt suffering from hernia in August. He re-joined his battalion in Egypt on New Year’s Eve, 1915. He was sent with them to France in March 1916.
Between 22nd and 27th July 1916 (later fixed as 25th July) he was killed in action. He was buried at a map reference ‘in the vicinity of Pozières’. The grave could not be located later and he is remembered with honour on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial.
- based on notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board
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