CLARKE, Arthur
| Service Number: | 2891 |
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| Enlisted: | 13 September 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 30th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Derbyshire, United Kingdom, December 1876 |
| Home Town: | Adamstown, Newcastle, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Miner |
| Died: | 1 Popran Road, Adamstown, New South Wales, 15 April 1946, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW METHODIST 4-22. 8. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 13 Sep 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2891, 30th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 9 Apr 1916: | Involvement Private, 2891, 30th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Nestor embarkation_ship_number: A71 public_note: '' | |
| 9 Apr 1916: | Embarked Private, 2891, 30th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Nestor, Sydney | |
| 20 Oct 1917: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 2891, 30th Infantry Battalion, 2nd Passchendaele , SW left wrist | |
| 19 Apr 1918: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 2891, 30th Infantry Battalion, German Spring Offensive 1918, SW right shoulder | |
| 14 Jun 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 2891, 30th Infantry Battalion, 2nd MD |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served and suffered during The Great War, resting peacefully at Sandgate Cemetery.
75 years ago today, on the Tuesday afternoon of the 16th April 1946, Private Arthur (Jerry) Clarke, 30th Battalion (Reg No-2891), miner (Glebe Colliery, Merewether, N.S.W.), of 1 Popran Road, Adamstown, New South Wales, was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 69. METHODIST 4-22. 8.
Born at Derbyshire, United Kingdom about 1876 to John and May Clarke; husband of Ethel Clarke nee Date or Lewis (married 1919, Hamilton, N.S.W., died 1947), Arthur enlisted September 1915 at Newcastle, N.S.W.
Mr Clarke’s name has been inscribed on the Adamstown Citizens' Memorial and the Glebe Methodist Church Honour Roll (photo, unveiled on the 14th March 1917, 42 names inscribed).
Arthur’s headstone indicates his service with the 1st A.I.F., but the inscription is almost unreadable, so I have placed poppies and a 1914-1918 WAR label in remembrance of his sacrifice for God, King and Country.
An individual Memorial Plaque has been placed on The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall.
Lest We Forget.
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