Clarence Russell MASON

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MASON, Clarence Russell

Service Number:	3411
Enlisted:	23 July 1915
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	13th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Mudgee, New South Wales, Australia, 27 July 1895
Home Town:	Mudgee, Mid-Western Regional, New South Wales
Schooling:	Mudgee District School
Occupation:	Blacksmith
Died:	Illness (Influenza and pneumonia), Germany, 30 October 1918, aged 23 years
Cemetery:	Berlin South-Western Cemetery (& Italian Cemetery) Plot XIX, Row A, Grave No. 1.
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Mudgee Anglican Parish of Mudgee Great War Honour Roll, Mudgee District Fallen Soldiers Memorial

World War 1 Service

23 Jul 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3411, 13th Infantry Battalion
13 Oct 1915:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 3411, 13th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Port Lincoln embarkation_ship_number: A17 public_note: ''
6 Aug 1916:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 3411, 13th Infantry Battalion, Mouquet Farm
11 Apr 1917:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 3411, 13th Infantry Battalion, Bullecourt (First), Reported Missing later confirmed as POW
12 Apr 1917:	Imprisoned Died of Influenza / Pneumonia two weeks before the war's end

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Biography contributed by Stephen Brooks

Clarence ‘Clarrie’ Mason was a son of Samuel and Laura Ann Mason of Mudgee, New South Wales.

He had two brothers also served, an older brother, 3215 Pte. Ernest William Mason 56th Battalion AIF, was killed in action in Belgium 23 September 1917, aged 31. Another brother, 3356 Private John Leslie Mason 53rd Battalion AIF, returned to Australia in early 1919.

Clarence served with the 13th Battalion and joined his unit in Egypt in early 1916. He served at Mouquet Farm on the Western Front and survived up until the first Battle of Bullecourt in which the 13th Battalion suffered very heavy casualties after being trapped in the trenches of the German Hindenberg line. Clarence was taken prisoner of war, along with hundreds of other Australians.

He very sadly died of influenza on 30 October 1918, at a place called Malchow in Germany, and was originally buried on the island of Rugen, in the Baltic Sea. After the war his remains were reinterred in a Berlin military cemetery.

This was a very difficult time for his mother, Laura Ann Mason as her husband had died in June 1917, and she had already lost a son killed during September 1917.

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