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Rootsweb ID: I56839 Birth Record 5 June 1893 in Port Pirie, South Australia

Father: William Hudson CLERKE b: Abt 1862
Married: 9/11/1889 in Jamestown, SA
Mother: Louisa Clerke (nee FLAVEL b: 13/9/1869 in Near Tarlee, SA)
mother remarried - Louisa Wallis - living in Solomontown, SA.

Siblings:
Thomas William Hudson CLERKE   b: 17/8/1890 in Port Pirie, SA
Elsie Emma May CLERKE   b: 4/1/1892 in Port Pirie, SA
Richard Roy CLERKE   b: 5/6/1893 in Port Pirie, SA
William Henry CLERKE   b: 28/6/1895 in Port Pirie, SA
Millicent Victoria CLERKE   b: 12/4/1897 in Port Pirie, SA
Effie Gladys CLERKE   b: 10/3/1899 in Port Pirie, SA
Dorothy Myrtle CLERKE   b: 30/8/1901 in Port Pirie, SA
Charles Leslie CLERKE   b: 5/9/1903 in Warnertown, SA

Next of kin in service:
Brother:
5324 - William Henry Clerke (also known under Clarke)
           Trooper in Australian Veterinary Corps
            21/3/1916  enlisted
            12/8/1916 embarked Port Adelaide, SA, on board HMAT A70 Ballarat
            3/3/1919 returned to Australia
            15/6/1955 passed away, buried in Port Pirie Cemetery
            buried in:  Port Pirie Cemetery
                           Section Protestant Reserve E; Plot 98

Uncle John Sydney Dickson and Aunt Caroline Dickson (nee Flavel), Jamestown, SA

Cousins:
2346  -  Francis Isaac Dickson
              Private in 27th Infantry Battalion
              22/6/1915 enlisted at Keswick
              14/10/1915 embarked from Port Adelaide on HMAT Themistocles A32
              3/7/1918 killed in action
              Re-interned in Adelaide Cemetery, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France

4104  -  Morgan James Dickson
              Private in 27th Battalion
              9/8/1915  enlisted
              9/3/1916  embarked Port Adelaide onboard RMS Mongolia
              23/9/1918 returned to Australia

9/1822  Neil Stanley Dickson (MM)
              Lance Corporal - NZ, Otago Infantry Battalion
              1903 left Australia for New Zealand
              18/10/1915 enlisted
              8/1/1916     embarked NZ for Suez, Egypt
              22/10/1916  received Military Medal - gallantry in the field
              6/12/1917    discharged from service in NZ
              19/11/1918  passed away from influenza / pneumonia
              buried in:      Winton Cemetery, Winton, NZ            

1536 - Frederick Roy Vincent Dickson
           10/9/1915 enlisted
           18/11/1915 embarked Port Adelaide, onboard HMAT A2 Geelong
           Private in 9th Light Horse Regiment
           22/12/1915  returned to Australia
           1/2/1920 passed away, buried in Jamestown Cemetery, South Australia

Lived at Solomontown, Port Pirie, SA prior to enlisting.

Previously served: 3mths Voluntary Infantry Port Pirie

Described on enlisting as 22yrs 1mth old; 5' 9 1/4" tall; 154 lbs;
fresh complexion; hazel eyes; brown hair; Methodist

28/7/1915     enlisted in Adelaide, SA
                    appointed to Base Infantry, Exhibition

27/10/1915   embarked Port Adelaide, onboard HMAT Benalla A24
                    Driver in 14th Australian Field Artillery Brigade

1/2/1916       3rd Light Horse Regiment

1/3/1916       taken on strength of 1st Light Horse Regiment, Heliopolis
25/3/1916     admitted Lumbage into 3rd Auxiliary Hospital, Helipolis

15/5/1916     transferred to Artillery details, Tel-el-Kebir

31/8/1916     embarked 5th Division Art France, Bulford
4/9/1916       Joined 5th Division Base Depot, Etaples, France

11/9/1916     taken on strenght as Gunner in 5th Division Artillery Corp

9/1/1917       promoted to Driver (temp)

15/3/1917     severe cold, admitted to hospital, in the field
16/3/1917     transferred to Ambulance Train
16/3/1917     admitted to 5th General Hospital - influenza, Rouen, France
31/3/1917     transferred to No.2 Convalescent Depot
10/4/1917     discharged to Base Depot, Rouen, France

6/7/1917       granted furlo (leave) to England
17/7/1917     rejoined from leave

1/8/1917       transferred to 14th Field Artillery Brigade
                    taken on strength and posted to 54th Battery

#88 Gunner E J Dunn stated:
"Driver Shcultz of the 54th Battery saw Clerke to the dressing station at Ypres,
and told me he was doing his best to find out where Clerke is buried.
Clerke was packing ammunition one night to the Battery.
On his return home he was wounded seriously in the arm, and I think also in
the lower part of the body, on the Corduroy Track."

#4286 Driver J W Brown - 54th Battery, 14th Brigade
"He was of 14th Brigade, Just off Anzac Ridge, Ypres sector, early in October,
between 10 and 11 o'clock at night.  He was taking ammunition up to guns on
horses.  Hit by shell, badly wounded in side, arm and leg.  I helped to carry him
to the Dressing Station - he was conscious all the way down and when I left him,
all he said was to ask me to put him out of pain.
Died at Dressing Station the following morning.  Know nothing of burial, would
be buried by the Dressing Station at Vlamertinghe,  I was about 10/15 yards
behind him when he was hit."

1/10/1917     gun shot wound to right arm - received in action
                    admitted to 14th Australian Field Ambulance

1/10/1917     died of wounds 
buried in:       Menin Road South Military Cemetery, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium
                    Plot 2, Row I, Grave 27

Medals:          1914/15 Star (22516), British War medal (25918), Victory medal (25739)
                     Memorial Plaque and Scroll (333436)

Sourced and submitted by Julianne T Ryan.  2/6/2016.  Lest we forget.