PAGE, Clarence Hallard
| Service Numbers: | 998, 4908 |
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| Enlisted: | 19 March 1915, Keswick, South Australia |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 2nd Divisional Signal Company |
| Born: | Kadina, South Australia, 30 April 1895 |
| Home Town: | Smoky Bay, Ceduna, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Kadina Public School |
| Occupation: | Telegraphist |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Passchendaele, Belgium, 14 October 1916, aged 21 years |
| Cemetery: |
Railway Dugouts Burial Ground (Transport Farm) (VI.O.4.), |
| Memorials: | Adelaide National War Memorial, Adelaide Officers of S.A. Post, Telegraph and Telephone Department Great War Roll of Honor, Adelaide Postmaster General's Department WWI Honour Board , Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ceduna Murat Bay and District WW1 Honor Roll, Kadina & District WW1 Roll of Honor, Kadina Memorial High School WW1 Honour Roll, Kadina War Memorial Arch |
World War 1 Service
| 19 Mar 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 998, Keswick, South Australia | |
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| 31 May 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 998, 27th Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '15' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Geelong embarkation_ship_number: A2 public_note: '' | |
| 31 May 1915: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 998, 27th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Geelong, Adelaide | |
| 5 Sep 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 4908, 27th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli | |
| 14 Oct 1916: |
Involvement
AIF WW1, Corporal, 4908, 2nd Divisional Signal Company, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 4908 awm_unit: 2nd Australian Division Signals Company awm_rank: Corporal awm_died_date: 1916-10-14 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by John Edwards
"...4908 Private (Pte) Clarence Hallard Page, 27th Battalion, of Kadina, SA. A telegraphist prior to enlisting in March 1915, he embarked from Adelaide with the 27th Battalion on board HMAT Geelong (A2) on 31 May 1915. They arrived in Alexandria, Egypt, in September 1915 and were sent as reinforcements to Gallipoli. Pte Page was hospitalised in Egypt with frost bite and influenza on 27 November 1915. He was discharged from hospital in January 1916. Pte Page arrived in France on 21 March 1916 and it was, possibly, at this time that he was transferred to the 2nd Divisional Signal Company and promoted to Temporary Lance Corporal. In May 1916 he was promoted to full Corporal. Cpl Page was killed in action at Passchendaele, Belgium on 14 October 1916. He was 21 years of age." - SOURCE (www.awm.gov.au)
"THE LATE CORPORAL H. PAGE.
News has been received of the death in action in France on October 14 of Corporal Clarence H. Page. Corporal Page was educated at Kadina, and entered the postal service there. Later he was sent to Kapunda as telegraphist, and there he obtained a commission in the senior cadets. He was transferred to the Smoky Bay repeating-station, and he enlisted on March 19, 1915. He was highly esteemed by all who knew him." - from the Adelaide Chronicle 09 Dec 1916 (nla.gov.au)
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