Clive Allen GLASSON

GLASSON, Clive Allen

Service Number: 5017
Enlisted: 25 January 1916, Bathurst, NSW
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 9th Light Trench Mortar Battery
Born: Godolphin, West Guyong, NSW, 1895
Home Town: Guyong West, Orange Municipality, New South Wales
Schooling: Shadford School
Occupation: Grazier
Died: Killed in Action, Belgium, 16 July 1917
Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Blayney and Milthorpe District Roll of Honor, Menin Gate Memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing of the Ypres Salient), Millthorpe Memorial Gates, Millthorpe Shadforth Public School Great War Roll of Honour, Orange Shire of Canobolas
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World War 1 Service

25 Jan 1916: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 5017, 17th Infantry Battalion, Bathurst, NSW
5 Jun 1916: Involvement Private, 5017, 17th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Kyarra embarkation_ship_number: A55 public_note: ''
5 Jun 1916: Embarked Private, 5017, 17th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Kyarra, Sydney
16 Jul 1917: Involvement Private, 5017, 9th Light Trench Mortar Battery, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 5017 awm_unit: 9th Australian Light Trench Mortar Battery awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1917-07-16

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of John and Catherine GLASSON.

Mrs. J. H. Glasson, 39 Awaba-street, Mosman, has received notification that her son, Gunner C. A. Glasson, has been killed in France. A brother, Private J. A. Glasson, died of  wounds on November 22. Both were engaged in grazing in the Orange district. Another brother was killed in the South African war.