METCALFE, John Clarence Francis
| Service Number: | 1635 |
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| Enlisted: | 11 January 1916, West Maitland, New South Wales |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 34th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Brunswick, Victoria, 6 July 1896 |
| Home Town: | Scone, Upper Hunter Shire, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Natural causes, Heidelburg, Victoria, 9 June 1977, aged 80 years |
| Cemetery: |
Melbourne General Cemetery, Carlton, Victoria |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 11 Jan 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1635, West Maitland, New South Wales | |
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| 2 May 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 1635, 34th Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Hororata embarkation_ship_number: A20 public_note: '' | |
| 2 May 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 1635, 34th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Hororata, Sydney | |
| 6 May 1918: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 34th Infantry Battalion, Merris (France), Wound (face and right eye) | |
| 22 Oct 1918: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 1635, 34th Infantry Battalion |
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Embarkation Roll (www.awm.gov.au) incorrectly records third Christian name as FRANER instead of Francis
John Clarence Francis (correct spelling) Metcalfe, was born 6 Jul 1896 at (134 Barrow St) Brunswick, Melbourne. He died 9 Jun 1977, at Repat. Hospital, Heidelburg, and buried Melb. General Cemetery, Carlton, on 14 Jun 1977, with standard AIF plaque. He was a TPI pensioner but had been a labourer, tramway employee, cook, and tractor driver. He was wounded in the right eye at Rouen, France, and it was excised in hospital in Chelsea, London. See also Melb. Argus, Fri 30 Sep 1927, p16.
He had only one child, Leslie Metcalfe, who died in 1969 in Ivanhoe, and four granddaughters. John's death certificate records his father's name as 'Albert' but the correct name was Arthur Richard Metcalfe (my grandfather). Arthur had left John's mother, Margaret (Cass) in 1898–99, and later married my grandmother, Mary McKenna, in Brisbane. I do not know any schooling details nor which relatives took in John, or his older sister Ethel, after their parents separated. - Sumitted by Bernard Metcalfe