PARKINSON, Clarence Gerald
| Service Number: | 2738 |
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| Enlisted: | 27 July 1915, Ballarat, Victoria |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 7th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Nhill, Victoria, Australia, 1897 |
| Home Town: | Ballarat, Central Highlands, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Clunes State School, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 25 July 1916 |
| Cemetery: |
Serre Road Cemetery No.2 Beaumont Hamel, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Clunes Soldiers Pictorial Honour Roll |
World War 1 Service
| 27 Jul 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2738, Ballarat, Victoria | |
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| 27 Oct 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 2738, 24th Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '14' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: '' | |
| 27 Oct 1915: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 2738, 24th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ulysses, Melbourne | |
| 24 Feb 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 7th Infantry Battalion | |
| 25 Jul 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 2738, 7th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 2738 awm_unit: 7 Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1916-07-25 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Robert Wight
Clarence Gerald Parkinson enlisted in the AIF in Ballarat on 27 July 1915, aged just 18.
He embarked overseas on 27 October 1915 and arrived in Egypt about five weeks later.
On 24 February 1916 he was transferred to the 7th Battalion and, a month after that, on 26 March he departed for France.
He arrived in Marseilles on 31 March 1916, and the battalion entered the Battle for Pozieres – part of the British Somme offensive – on 23 July 1916.
Pte Clarence Gerald Parkinson was declared missing, later confirmed killed in action, two days later, on 25 July 1916.
His remains and identity disc were recovered by the Imperial War Graves Commission in October 1928 (in the Pozieres region) and subsequently re-interred at the Serre Road Cemetery No.2, near Beaumont-Hamel, at around the same time.
Source: Extract from "Clunes Soldiers Memorial Panel" by Robert Wight, June 2022.
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