DEWSNAP, Claude
| Service Number: | 3071 |
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| Enlisted: | 7 July 1915, Melbourne |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 8th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Maldon, Victoria, Australia, 1892 |
| Home Town: | Brighton, Bayside, Victoria |
| Schooling: | State School, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | Clerk |
| Died: | Wounds, Belgium, 28 October 1917 |
| Cemetery: |
Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery Plot 22, Row H, Grave 19, |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 7 Jul 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3071, 24th Infantry Battalion, Melbourne | |
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| 26 Nov 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 3071, 24th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '14' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Commonwealth embarkation_ship_number: A73 public_note: '' | |
| 26 Nov 1915: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 3071, 24th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Commonwealth, Melbourne | |
| 24 Feb 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 8th Infantry Battalion | |
| 18 Aug 1916: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 3071, 8th Infantry Battalion, Gun shot wounds to left leg | |
| 20 Sep 1917: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 3071, 8th Infantry Battalion, Gun shot wound to scalp | |
| 26 Oct 1917: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 3071, 8th Infantry Battalion, Gun shot wounds & fractured skull | |
| 28 Oct 1917: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 3071, 8th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 3071 awm_unit: 8 Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1917-10-28 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Elizabeth Allen
Claude DEWSNAP was born in 1892 in Maldon, Victoria
His parents were John Joseph DEWSNAP & Mary Ann ADAMS
He had previously served for 7 years in the Junior Cadet Corp in a State School in Victoria before he enlisted in Melbourne on 7th July, 1915 and embarked with the 24th Infantry Battalion, 7th Reinforcements on the 26th November, 1915 on the ship HMAT Commonwealth
He transferred to the 8th Infantry Battalion on 24th February, 1916
He was wounded on three occasions
1. 18.8.16 - gun shot wound to his left leg
2. 20.9.17 - gun shot wound to his scalp
3. 26.10.17 - gun shot wounds & fractured skull
Claude died of Gun shot wounds & a fractured skull at the 10th Casualty Clearing Station on 28th October, 1917 - he is buried in Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery & his name is memorialised on the Australian War Memorial
Medals: British War Medal & Victory Medal
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Three of his brothers served in WW1
1. John William DEWSNAP (SN 3027) Killed in Action in 1916
2. George Peter DEWSNAP (SN 4493 & SN 66) Returned - awarded the Military Medal
3. Joseph Henry DEWSNAP (SN21738) Returned
Biography contributed by Andreena Hockley
Died of wounds at the 10th Casualty Clearing Station, France, on the 28th of October, 1917, Sergeant Claude Dewsnap, youngest son of Mrs. Mary Dewsnap, 19 Porter-street, Prahran. A brother (Jack) was killed in action at Fleurbaix on the 19th of July, 1916. Another brother, George, was also on active service.
Born in 1892, Claude became a junior teacher at the Essendon School in 1907, was transferred to Canterbury in 1903, and to Middle Park in 1909. He resigned on the 28th of February, 1911, to become a clerk in the Lands Department. He was a noted footballer and a good all-round athlete.
A letter from a friend states that he enlisted in July, 1915, and saw service in Egypt and France. He began in France as a bomb-thrower; was wounded in the leg at Mouquet Farm, August, 1916: rejoined his Battalion, April, 1917; was wounded in the head, 20th September, 1917; rejoined in October; was wounded again in the head and the leg; and died from these wounds on the 28th of the following month.
Source: The Education Department's Record of War Service, Victoria, 1914-1919.
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