STREET, Claude William Thomas
| Service Number: | 494 |
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| Enlisted: | 20 August 1914 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 12th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, 17 April 1892 |
| Home Town: | Queenstown, West Coast, Tasmania |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Natural causes, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, 12 July 1948, aged 56 years |
| Cemetery: |
Cornelian Bay Cemetery and Crematorium, Tasmania Methodist, Ff, Number 242 |
| Memorials: | Queenstown State School WWI Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 20 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 494, 12th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 20 Oct 1914: | Involvement Private, 494, 12th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Hobart embarkation_ship: HMAT Geelong embarkation_ship_number: A2 public_note: '' | |
| 20 Oct 1914: | Embarked Private, 494, 12th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Geelong, Hobart | |
| 3 May 1915: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 494, 12th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, GSW to right arm and chest | |
| 20 Jun 1916: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 494, 12th Infantry Battalion, 6th MD - wounded on Gallipoli |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Claude Street enlisted during August 1914, one of the first Australians to sign up for WW1. He served with the 12th Battalion AIF and was badly wounded on the day of the Anzac Landing at Gallipoli. 490 Private Samuel Smith of the same unit reported in a letter home, that on the day of the landing he “went up the hill again, where I met Claude Street with a broken arm.”
Claude was evacuated to Egypt, which he reached five days later, where he was admitted with shrapnel wounds to his chest and arm. He was returned to Australia during July 1915 and was awarded a pension.
His younger brother, 26944 Gunner Alfred James Street also enlisted in January 1916 and returned to Australia during 1919. Their father, 35333 Gunner Alfred James Street, enlisted in the Artillery during February 1917, just shy of his 50th birthday. He also returned in 1919.
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