SELLGREN, Claude John Lawrence
| Service Number: | 242 |
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| Enlisted: | 8 February 1915, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Last Rank: | Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | 22nd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Dunedin, New Zealand, 1883 |
| Home Town: | Mont Albert North, Whitehorse, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Auckland Grammar School |
| Occupation: | Fruit Preserver |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 5 August 1916 |
| Cemetery: |
Serre Road Cemetery No.2 Plot X, Row M, Grave 4, Serre Road Cemetery No 2, Beaumont Hamel, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 8 Feb 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Melbourne, Victoria | |
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| 10 May 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Corporal, SN 242, 22nd Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières | |
| 10 May 1915: | Embarked AIF WW1, Corporal, SN 242, 22nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ulysses, Melbourne | |
| 5 Aug 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Sergeant, SN 242, 22nd Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières |
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Claude John Lawrence SELLGREN was born in 1883 in Dunedin, New Zealand
His parents were John Oscar SELLGREN and Catherine Amelia Augusta LINDGREN
He enlisted in Melbourne on 8th February 1915 with the Australian Army - 22nd Battalion A Company - Unit embarked from Melbourne on board HMAT Ulysses on 10th May 1915
Claude was Killed in Action on 5th August 1916 - he is buried in Serre Road No. 2 Cemetery in France - He is also commemorated on the Australian War Memorial
COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES (www.cwgc.org)
WAR FILE - National Archives of Australia (recordsearch.naa.gov.au)
AIF PROJECT (www.aif.adfa.edu.au)
STORY & Photo about his Father John (homepages.vodafone.co.nz)
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OBITUARY from New Zealand - Papers Past
SELLGREN - On August 5, 1916, Killed in Action in France, Claude John Lawrence, Sergeant 22nd Battalion Australian Imperial Forces, eldest son of the late John Oscar Selgren aged 32 years.
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