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SCHRADER, Clifford Claudius
| Service Number: | 172 |
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| Enlisted: | 17 September 1914, Morphettville, South Australia |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 5th Divisional Signal Company |
| Born: | Rowland's Flat, South Australia, 18 March 1895 |
| Home Town: | Adelaide, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Postal assistant |
| Died: | Natural causes, Adelaide, South Australia, 6 March 1965, aged 69 years |
| Cemetery: |
Centennial Park Cemetery, South Australia Derrick Gardens |
| Memorials: | Adelaide Officers of S.A. Post, Telegraph and Telephone Department Great War Roll of Honor, Lyndoch and District Roll of Honour, Minlaton Methodist Sunday School Pictorial Honor Roll, Minlaton War Memorial WW1 |
World War 1 Service
| 17 Sep 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Sapper, 172, 1st Divisional Signal Company, Morphettville, South Australia | |
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| 20 Oct 1914: | Involvement AIF WW1, Sapper, 172, 1st Divisional Signal Company, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Karroo embarkation_ship_number: A10 public_note: '' | |
| 20 Oct 1914: | Embarked AIF WW1, Sapper, 172, 1st Divisional Signal Company, HMAT Karroo, Melbourne | |
| 7 May 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Sapper, 172, 5th Divisional Signal Company, ANZAC / Gallipoli | |
| 6 Mar 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 172, 5th Divisional Signal Company |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of Hermann Heinrich Conrad SCHRADER and Florence Hannah Maud nee LADNER of Lyndoch, SA
Biography contributed by St Ignatius' College
Clifford Claudius Schrader was born on the 19th of March in 1895 at Rowland Flat South Australia. He was son to Hermann Heinrich Conrad Schrader and Florence Hannah Maud nee Lander. He enlisted aged was 19 and 6 months. He stood at a height of 5ft 7/18 inches and weighed 145 lbs (65.7kg). He had a chest measurement on 33.35 ½ inches and had blue eyes and brown hair. Prior to the war Clifford worked at a postal assistant.
Clifford served for 4 years and 171 days, his service abroad lasted 4 years and 78 days.
A few years after he had safely arrived home, he married Sheilda Margaret. On the 6th of March 1965, Clifford Claudius Schrader had died at the age of sixty-nine due to natural causes. His grave is located at ‘Centennial Park Cemetery, South Australia.’ He is commemorated at the ‘Minlaton War Memorial WW1, Lyndoch and District Roll of Honor, Telegraph and Telephone Department Great War Roll of Honor’.
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