MOON, Clarence Leslie
| Service Number: | 6297 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 4th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Blayney, New South Wales, Australia., 16 February 1887 |
| Home Town: | Parramatta, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Railway Ganger (chief track worker) |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 5 May 1917, aged 30 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 9 Sep 1916: | Involvement Private, 6297, 4th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: '' | |
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| 9 Sep 1916: | Embarked Private, 6297, 4th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Euripides, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by John Oakes
Clarence Lesley Jerram MOON (‘Les’) (Service Number 6297) was born in Blayney on 16th February 1887. He was the ‘son of Mr John Moon, for many years a popular railway guard on the Cowra-Blayney line.’ He joined the NSW Government Railways Permanent Way Branch as a labourer in the Western Division in October 1908. In December 1909 he became a fettler on the Dubbo-Coonamble line. In October 1911 he moved to the Koorawatha-Grenfell line, and in September 1914 to the Peak Hill-Parkes line, before returning to Koorawatha-Grenfell in January 1915. In April 1915 he was promoted to ganger on the Nyngan-Cobar line. In April 1916 he was given leave to enlist in the AIF in Sydney.
He embarked from Sydney in September 1916 and landed in England in October. In December 1916 he was Absent Without Leave for one day and was punished with seven days ‘Field Punishment No. 2 and ten days C.B.’ In February 1917 he was sent to France and joined the 4th Battalion ‘in the field’.
He was killed in action at Bullecourt on 5th May 1917. He was buried at a map reference in the vicinity of Noreuil. His grave could not be located after the War, but he is remembered with honour on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial.
- based on the Australian War Memorial Honour Roll and notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board.
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