Harry Corben CLARK MID

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Service Number:	871
Enlisted:	21 August 1914, Enlisted at Brisbane, QLD
Last Rank:	Sergeant
Last Unit:	9th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Stockwell, London, England, United Kingdom, 1884
Home Town:	Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria
Schooling:	Haselridge Road Council School, Clapham, London, England
Occupation:	Gymnastic Instructor
Died:	Killed in Action, Gaba Tepe, Gallipoli, Gallipoli, Dardanelles, Turkey, 20 May 1915
Cemetery:	Shell Green Cemetery, Gallipoli Peninsula Plot 1. Row C, Grave 18 Chaplain F.R. Richards officiated Headstone inscription reads: Greater love hath no man God's love is forever, Shell Green Cemetery, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey, Lone Pine Cemetery, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

21 Aug 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 871, 9th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Brisbane, QLD
27 Aug 1914:	Promoted AIF WW1, Sergeant, 9th Infantry Battalion
24 Sep 1914:	Involvement Sergeant, 871, 9th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '9' embarkation_place: Brisbane embarkation_ship: HMAT Omrah embarkation_ship_number: A5 public_note: ''
24 Sep 1914:	Embarked Sergeant, 871, 9th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Omrah, Brisbane
26 Apr 1915:	Honoured Mention in Dispatches, ANZAC / Gallipoli, For rescuing wounded comrades while under heavy shrapnel and rifle fire Awarded, and gazetted, London Gazette, second Supplement, No. 29251 on 5 August 1915; Commonwealth Gazette, No. 133 on 28 October 1915

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Arrived in Australia aged 27 yearss

Son of Harry and Emma Susan Clark of Priory Road, Hardway, Gosport Hants, England

Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

Previously served in Bermuda with the Duke of Cornwall's Regiment