COLLESS, Clarence Nepean
| Service Number: | 377 |
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| Enlisted: | 1 July 1915, Liverpool, NSW |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 30th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Penrith, NSW, 1892 |
| Home Town: | Liverpool, Fairfield, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Clerk |
| Died: | Killed by train, Granville Railway Station, Granville, NSW, 30 June 1920 |
| Cemetery: |
Rookwood Cemetery & Crematorium Zone C Anglican 8 1629-1630 |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 1 Jul 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 377, 30th Infantry Battalion, Liverpool, NSW | |
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| 9 Nov 1915: | Involvement Private, 377, 30th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Beltana embarkation_ship_number: A72 public_note: '' | |
| 9 Nov 1915: | Embarked Private, 377, 30th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Beltana, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of James William Colless, Bigge Street, Liverpool, New South Wales
Thrown Under the Train
Another Soldiers' Death,
Clarence Nepean Colless, a returned soldier, met with his death shortly after 11.30 o'clock on Wednesday night at Granville railway station. Night-officer Smith noticed a man chasing the rear part of the Parramatta-Sydney 11.25 p.m. train. He noticed him collide with one of the platform uprights and to fall and pitch underneath the passing train. The train was pulled up after it had gone a car's length beyond the place where poor Colless was found unconscious and prac tically crushed to death; in fact, death occurred within five minutes of the time that the railway men got down to his aid. His clothes were much torn about, and his back appeared to be broken. The body was removed to the Parramatta morgue.
Deceased was a son of Mr. James William Colless, station-master of Blacktown, and he resided with his father and mother at 21 Station-road, Auburn.He returned home between 7 and 8 o'clock on Wednesday evening, and, after speaking with his mother for a little time left to go to Granville, as he said on some business. His business seemed to have kept him pretty late, but his movements in Granville were not known when our reporter was town there on Thursday. Colless was 27 years of age and a single man. He had been away to the war for about four years, and since his return had been engaged at the military barracks, from which position he received his discharge on the day of his death.
Strange to relate, a brother of his was killed at Liverpool on the railway about three years ago under almost similar circumstances.