Horace Clifton CLAYTON

CLAYTON, Horace Clifton

    Service Number: TX622
    Enlisted: 10 November 1939
    Last Rank: Sergeant
    Last Unit: 2nd/12th Infantry Battalion
    Born: Dover, Tasmania, Australia, 1 July 1911
    Home Town: Dover, Huon Valley, Tasmania
    Schooling: Not yet discovered
    Occupation: Orchardist
    Died: Died of wounds, Papua, 25 January 1943, aged 31 years
    Cemetery: Port Moresby (Bomana) War Cemetery, Papua New Guinea
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    Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Townsville 2/12th Battalion Roll of Honour
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    World War 2 Service

    10 Nov 1939: Enlisted Private
    10 Nov 1939: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Sergeant, TX622, 2nd/12th Infantry Battalion
    25 Jan 1943: Involvement Sergeant, TX622, 2nd/12th Infantry Battalion, Kokoda - Papua

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    Biography contributed by Elizabeth Allen

    Horace Clifton CLAYTON was born in Dover, Tasmania on 1st July, 1911

    His parents were Joseph Thomas CLAYTON & Catherine Ann HARDY

    He died of Wounds in Papua on 25th January 1943 and is buried in the Port Moresby (Bomana) Cemetery

     

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