CLARK, Cecil Roy
| Service Number: | 1071 |
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| Enlisted: | 12 April 1915, An original of D Company |
| Last Rank: | Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | 26th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, 21 June 1896 |
| Home Town: | Hobart, Tasmania |
| Schooling: | Trinity Hill School Hobart, Tasmania |
| Occupation: | Bricklayer |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 9 August 1918, aged 22 years |
| Cemetery: |
Heath Cemetery, Picardie Plot II, Row J, Grave 11. |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Hobart Roll of Honour, Tasmanian Amateur Athletics Association |
World War 1 Service
| 12 Apr 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1071, 26th Infantry Battalion, An original of D Company | |
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| 29 Jun 1915: | Involvement Private, 1071, 26th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '15' embarkation_place: Brisbane embarkation_ship: HMAT Aeneas embarkation_ship_number: A60 public_note: '' | |
| 29 Jun 1915: | Embarked Private, 1071, 26th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Aeneas, Brisbane | |
| 9 Aug 1918: | Involvement Sergeant, 1071, 26th Infantry Battalion, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 1071 awm_unit: 26th Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Sergeant awm_died_date: 1918-08-09 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Cecil Clark served on Gallipoli with the 26th Battalion from the 4 September 1915 and was promoted to Corporal during December 1915. He was wounded by shellfire during June 1916, with a fractured forearm, and several other lesser shrapnel wounds. and evacuated to England for a few months’ recovery. He was promoted Sergeant during February 1918 and had 2 weeks leave in Paris just prior to his death during the great August offensive of 1918.
His Roll of Honour form notes- “Served with military with Germans interned on Bruny Island. Brother Tasman Leslie Clark died with wounds in France, also 5 brothers was in France, 3 in same battalion with him.”
His brother, who he had enlisted with, 1072 Pte. Tasman Leslie Clark 26th Battalion, had died of wounds 20 April 1916, aged 25. The other three brothers returned to Australia.
The following appeared in the Hobart Mercury October 1918.
The parents of the late Sergeant C. R. Clark have received the following letter from Major A. O. Wood (since himself killed):
“Dear Mrs. Clark, will you please accept the deepest sympathy of all officers, N.C.O’s, and men of C Company in your sad loss of your gallant son, Sergeant C. R. Clark. He had been in my company for a long time, and was one of the bravest men I have known. For any work that needed a good, cool, brave man to do, Sergeant Clark would always volunteer. He was really an exceptionally game chap, and was one of my best sergeants. As long as I have known him, he was always the same. It was in the great attack on the 8th and 9th of August that he was killed, and it was only by the great example set by such men, and their courage and determination, that the attack was such a great success. You have one great consolation in the fact that your very gallant son's life was given for the great cause we are fighting for, and that he died a glorious death leading his platoon into action. Anything further I can do for you I shall only be too happy to do.”
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