JAGGER, Claude Llewellyn
| Service Number: | 1955 |
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| Enlisted: | 7 February 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Warrant Officer Class 2 |
| Last Unit: | Army Pay Corps (AIF) |
| Born: | Wellington, New Zealand , 21 January 1881 |
| Home Town: | Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Pastoral Overseer |
| Died: | Cobar, New South Wales, Australia, 4 May 1937, aged 56 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 1 Service
| 7 Feb 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1955, Depot Battalion | |
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| 20 Oct 1916: | Involvement Private, 1955, 13th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '3' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Borda embarkation_ship_number: A30 public_note: '' | |
| 20 Oct 1916: | Embarked Private, 1955, 13th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Borda, Melbourne | |
| 1 Sep 1917: | Promoted AIF WW1, Corporal, 13th Light Horse Regiment | |
| 17 Sep 1921: | Embarked AIF WW1, Warrant Officer, 1955, Army Pay Corps (AIF), embarked England for RTA per Orvieto (accompanied by wife and child) | |
| 9 Jan 1922: | Discharged AIF WW1, Warrant Officer Class 2, 1955, Army Pay Corps (AIF) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Warrant Officer Claude LLewellyn Jagger/Jaggar (Service No:1955) enlisted in the AIF on 7 February 1916 as a Private with 22nd Depot Battalion and was a Sergeant with 13th Light Horse Regiment when he embarked from Melbourne for Plymouth on 20 October 1916 on board HMAT A30 Borda. Sergeant Jaggar was hospitalised in Sierra Leone with Malaria in 1916 and on 20 October 1917 was awarded 2 Blue Chevrons - one for each year of service abroad. On 28 August 1919 Sergeant Jaggar was 'Brought to the notice of the Secretary of State for War for invaluable service rendered in connection with the War' (NAA). WO Jaggar embarked from England for the RTA accompanied by his wife and child on 17 September 1921 and was attached to Army Pay Corps at Discharge on 9 January 1922.
Claude was born in 1881 in Wellington in New Zealand, eldest of six children of Leonard (Len) Rose Jaggar (b1858 in Canterbury, New Zealand) and Fanny Ada Kemble (b1860 in Wellington, New Zealand). Len (an Insurance Clerk) and Fanny married in 1881 in Wellington, New Zealand and by 1884 were in Sydney, NSW where Len was an Insurance Manager. In 1894 the family moved to Brisbane, QLD where Len was Insurance Manager for QLD Mutual Insurance Co and was appointed a Justice of the Peace and Magistrate for the Colony. Len and Fanny moved to Sydney and then Melbourne, where Len was General Manager and Attorney for Australasia of the Manchester Fire Insurane Co.
Claude worked as an Engineer in Melbourne and was a Pastoral Overseer in 1916 when he enlisted in the AIF. He was in London in 1918 when he married Lilian May Everard Byrne (b1890 in Sydney, NSW) and in 1922 they returned to Melbourne. Following his Discharge from the AIF, Claude worked as an Engineer Salesman in Melbourne and by 1933 had settled in Sydney NSW where Claude was a Sales Manager. Claude died in 1937 and Lilian in 1942.