"Death takes the loved one from our homes, but never from our hearts"
On the 19th of May, Clarrie arrived at the Dardanelles, to participate it what became known as the Dardanelles Campaign and also the Gallipoli Campaign on the Gallipoli peninsular. He landed at Gallipoli on the 21st May at about 6.30pm.
Trooper Clarence served as a medical orderly, despite being a crack shot with his rifle. He was also a very proficient horseman, despite being a city boy.
On the 26th June 1915, Clarries 23rd birthday, he again opened his diary to record the day. After tending to a number of wounded, and receiving terrible shrapnel treatment from the Turks, later in the day Clarrie and Corporal Harold Bay, went for a swim off Gaba Tepe. They were returning to the lines through a communications trench, when a sniper shot hit Trooper Clarence in the back of the neck, passing through the base of his skull. Despite the best efforts of 2 Doctors, Clarence died without regaining consciousness.
He was buried in a temporary grave in “Shrapnel Gully” by Father Bergin and then eventually interred in Row B, Grave 5 in Beach cemetery.
Courtesy of Geoff Atkinson
Australasian Saturday 14 August 1915 page 27
Trooper Clarence served as a medical orderly, despite being a crack shot with his rifle. He was also a very proficient horseman, despite being a city boy.
On the 26th June 1915, Clarries 23rd birthday, he again opened his diary to record the day. After tending to a number of wounded, and receiving terrible shrapnel treatment from the Turks, later in the day Clarrie and Corporal Harold Bay, went for a swim off Gaba Tepe. They were returning to the lines through a communications trench, when a sniper shot hit Trooper Clarence in the back of the neck, passing through the base of his skull. Despite the best efforts of 2 Doctors, Clarence died without regaining consciousness.
He was buried in a temporary grave in “Shrapnel Gully” by Father Bergin and then eventually interred in Row B, Grave 5 in Beach cemetery.
Courtesy of Geoff Atkinson
Australasian Saturday 14 August 1915 page 27