KNEEBONE, Clive Lancey
| Service Number: | 1027 |
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| Enlisted: | 30 September 1914 |
| Last Rank: | Staff Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | 4th Field Ambulance |
| Born: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 16 January 1895 |
| Home Town: | Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Chemist |
| Died: | Parkinson's Disease, Mildura, Victoria, Australia, 14 July 1960, aged 65 years |
| Cemetery: |
Mildura (Nichols Point) Public Cemetery, Victoria |
| Memorials: | Kew War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 30 Sep 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1027, 4th Field Ambulance | |
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| 22 Dec 1914: | Involvement Private, 1027, 4th Field Ambulance, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '22' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Berrima embarkation_ship_number: A35 public_note: '' | |
| 22 Dec 1914: | Embarked Private, 1027, 4th Field Ambulance, HMAT Berrima, Melbourne | |
| 1 Jun 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, Sergeant, 1027, 4th Field Ambulance, embarked Alexandria for Marseilles | |
| 8 Oct 1918: | Embarked AIF WW1, Staff Sergeant, 1027, 4th Field Ambulance, embarked Taranto, Italy for Melbourne on board HT Port Sydney | |
| 31 Jan 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Staff Sergeant, 1027, 4th Field Ambulance |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Staff Sergeant Clive Lancey Kneebone (Service No:1027) enlisted in the AIF on 30 September 1914, and was a Private attached to 4th Field Ambulance on 22 December 1914 when he embarked with his Unit from Melbourne for Gallipoli on board Transport A35 Berrima. On 1 June 1916 he embarked from Alexandria for Marseilles, and by 1917 was promoted to Staff Sergeant, serving with 4th Field Ambulance on the Western Front. Staff Sergeant Kneebone embarked from Taranto, Italy on 8 October 1918 on board HT Port Sydney bound for Melbourne, where he was attached to 4th Field Ambulance at Discharge on 31 January 1919. Both of his older brothers - Fred and Geoff - also served in WWI.
Clive was born in Melbourne, Victoria in 1895, third of five children of Frederick (Fred) Thomas Sydney Lancey Kneebone (b1865 in Malta) and Constance Browning Mason (b1866 in Woods Point, Victoria). Fred studied in London at The Slade School of Art, and was a Scenic Artist with The Gaiety Theatre in London, travelling with the Theatre Company to Melbourne in 1888. Fred remained in Melbourne, and was one of the earliest members of the artists' staff with The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd. Fred and Constance (a Journalist) married in 1890 in Melbourne, where they settled and raised their family and both worked - Fred as an Artist and Constance as a Journalist.
Clive was in his third year of study as a Chemist in Melbourne in 1914 when he enlsited in the AIF. Following his Discharge, Clive was awarded land for fruit growing in Mildura in 1920 under the Discharged Soldiers' Settlement Act 1917. Clive was a Horticulturalist in Mildura in 1926, when he married Catherine Campbell Thomson (b1901 in Mildura, Victoria). Clive and Catherine settled at Birdwoodton via Mildura, where they raised their family and Clive was a Horticulturalist. From the 1950s, Clive suffered declining health, and unsuccesfully attempted to have his condition recognised by the War Pensions Entitlement Tribunal as a result of his War Service. Harold P Dunstan served with Clive in 4th Field Ambulance him in Egypt and France and nursed him in France when he was ill with Trench Fever. Harold stated (NAA) 'When I met Clive Kneebone sometime after 'the show' was over, he had taken up a block at Mildura and when I asked him why he had not finished his Chemist's course (he was a third year Chemist and only had another year to Qualify) he said 'I could not possibly face indoor work in my present health'. Clive died in 1960 and Catherine in 1967.
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