CLARKE, Frederick John
| Service Number: | 6296 |
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| Enlisted: | 13 October 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 23rd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Benalla, Victoria, Australia, 17 March 1894 |
| Home Town: | Benalla, Benalla, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | PMG Linesman, |
| Died: | Heart attack, Euroa, Victoria, Australia, 18 June 1970, aged 76 years |
| Cemetery: |
Euroa Cemetery, Victoria |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 13 Oct 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 23rd Infantry Battalion | |
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| 23 Nov 1916: | Involvement Private, 6296, 23rd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '14' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Hororata embarkation_ship_number: A20 public_note: '' | |
| 23 Nov 1916: | Embarked Private, 6296, 23rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Hororata, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by wayne clarke
Family history researched and written by Patrick Clarke - contributed with permission of author.
In 1930 Frederick Clarke worked on the railways at Wodonga, then came the depression. He then worked on the construction of the Hume Weir at Albury. He would leave home in the early hours of the morning on a push bike to ride out to the Hume Weir site and would return home at night at about 6pm. He also swept gutters around Wodonga, any job for a bob.
He moved his family to Seymour where he joined the PMG as a Lineman and then onto Euroa where he lived until he died suddenly about 8pm on the 18th June, 1970, aged 76.
The funeral was at the Euroa Cemetery following Requiem Mass at St Johns
Catholic Church. The coffin was draped with the Australian Flag and a grave side service
was conducted by the Returned Servicemen’s League (RSL) recording of the “Last Post” was played.
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