THOMPSON, Clive Townsend
| Service Number: | 30183 |
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| 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 |
World War 1 Service
| 5 Sep 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Gunner, 30183, 1st Field Artillery Brigade | |
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| 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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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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