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CLARK, John

Service Number:	386
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	4th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Fauldhouse, Linlithgowshire, Scotland., date not yet discovered
Home Town:	Weston, Cessnock, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Blacksmith
Died:	Killed in Action, Belgium, 22 September 1917, age not yet discovered
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Panel 7 - 17 - 23 - 25 - 27 - 29 - 31., Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Kurri Kurri War Memorial, Menin Gate Memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing of the Ypres Salient)

World War 1 Service

2 May 1916:	Involvement Private, SN 386, 34th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres
2 May 1916:	Embarked Private, SN 386, 34th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Hororata, Sydney
22 Sep 1917:	Involvement Private, SN 386, 4th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres

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Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon

He is one of four Australian soldier casualties of the Great War honoured on the Fauldhouse war memorial. Born at Fauldhouse, Linlithgowshire. Fauldhouse (Scots: Fauldhoose, Scottish Gaelic: Falas) is a village in West Lothian, Scotland. It is about halfway between Glasgow and Edinburgh. The nearest towns to Fauldhouse are Whitburn and Livingston.

Other neighbouring villages include Longridge, Shotts and Stoneyburn.

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John’s Commonwealth War Graves Commission record