Clive Townsend THOMPSON

THOMPSON, Clive Townsend

Service Number: 30183
Enlisted: 5 September 1916
Last Rank: Driver
Last Unit: 10th Field Artillery Brigade
Born: Strathfield, New South Wales, Australia, June 1897
Home Town: Drummoyne, Canada Bay, New South Wales
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Student
Died: Killed in Action, Belgium, 8 October 1917
Cemetery: Ypres Town Cemetery Extension
Plot III, Row F, Grave No. 25, Ypres Town Cemetery Extension, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Casino and District Memorial Hospital WW1 Roll of Honour, Sydney Grammar School WW1 Honour Board
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World War 1 Service

5 Sep 1916: Enlisted AIF WW1, Gunner, 30183, 1st Field Artillery Brigade
9 Nov 1916: Involvement Gunner, 30183, 1st Field Artillery Brigade, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '3' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Benalla embarkation_ship_number: A24 public_note: ''
9 Nov 1916: Embarked Gunner, 30183, 1st Field Artillery Brigade, HMAT Benalla, Sydney
11 Aug 1917: Transferred AIF WW1, Gunner, 10th Field Artillery Brigade
15 Aug 1917: Promoted AIF WW1, Driver, 10th Field Artillery Brigade
8 Oct 1917: Involvement Driver, 30183, 10th Field Artillery Brigade , Third Ypres, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 30183 awm_unit: 10th Australian Field Artillery Brigade awm_rank: Driver awm_died_date: 1917-10-08

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Biography contributed by Evan Evans

From Marie Victorine
 
30183 Driver Clive Townsend Thompson
10th Bde. Australian Field Artillery - 8th October 1917, aged 20.

Plot III. F. 25. – Ypres Town cemetery extension

Son of Joseph Peebles Thompson and Mary Ann Thompson, of 17, Collingwood St., Drummoyne, New South Wales. Native of Sydney, New South Wales.

A 19 year old student Prior to enlisting on 5 September 1916, he embarked for overseas with the 22nd Reinforcements of the 1st FAB from Sydney on 9 November 1916 aboard HMAT Benalla. After a period of training in England, he joined the 38th Battery of the 10th FAB in Belgium where he was killed in action at Passchendaele on 8 October 1917

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