
COLLIER, Clarence Timbrell
Service Numbers: | 570, Officer |
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Enlisted: | 26 August 1915, Sydney, NSW |
Last Rank: | Second Lieutenant |
Last Unit: | 18th Infantry Battalion |
Born: | Geurie, New South Wales, Australia, 24 August 1891 |
Home Town: | Roseville, Ku-ring-gai, New South Wales |
Schooling: | Fort Street Boys High School |
Occupation: | Solicitor |
Died: | Killed In Action, Fleurbaix, France, 20 July 1916, aged 24 years |
Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" |
Memorials: | Geurie Honour Roll, Petersham Fort Street High School Great War Honour Roll, V.C. Corner Australian Cemetery Memorial, Wellington Hall of Memory Honour Roll, Yeoval NSW Solicitors in WWI Honour Roll |
World War 1 Service
19 Aug 1914: | Involvement Private, 570, 1st Infantry Battalion, Naval and Military Forces - Special Tropical Corps | |
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19 Aug 1914: | Embarked Private, 570, 1st Infantry Battalion, Naval and Military Forces - Special Tropical Corps, HMAT Berrima, Sydney | |
26 Aug 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant, Officer, 18th Infantry Battalion, Sydney, NSW | |
20 Jan 1916: | Involvement 18th Infantry Battalion | |
20 Jan 1916: | Embarked 18th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Runic, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of Thomas Timbrell and Sarah Jane COLLIER, Percy Street, Wellington.
LIEUTENANT COLLIER. M. Thos. Collier, of Roseville, has been notified by the Defence Department that his son, Lieutenant Clarence Collier, has been wounded in France. Lieutenant Collier, who is a Sydney solicitor. was a member of the first expeditionary force that went to Rabaul. After returning to Sydney he re-enlisted, and passing through the olficers’ school, left for Egypt with his battalion of which the late Lieutenant-Colonel Norris was commanding officer.