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Clarke E C Pte 2611

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Volunteers of Essendon and Flemington, 1914-1918

2611 Private Ernest Charles Clarke, 22nd Battalion, Seymour, c 25 August 1915.

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Clarke E C Pte 2611 Ernest Charles 22 Inf Bn 18 Newsagent Single Cong

Address: Moonee Ponds, Puckle St, 4

Next of Kin: Clarke, Joseph, father, 4 Puckle St, Moonee Ponds

Enlisted: 20 Jul 1915

Embarked: A38 Ulysses 27 Oct 1915

Relatives:

Clarke J C A Pte 2613 brother

Pte Clarke embarked with the 6th Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Ulysses on 27 October 1915. Later transferring to the 7th Battalion, he was wounded in action on two separate occasions. Subsequently developing chronic bronchitis, he returned to Australia on 9 February 1919. (AWM)

Mr. Joseph Clarke, of 4 Puckle st., Moonee Ponds, received word on Friday, from the Defence Department, that his two sons, Privates Clarence and Ernest Clarke, had been wounded in France, where they had been for four months in the trenches. The young men themselves cabled next day from London that the wounds were only slight.

ROLL OF HONOR. (1916, August 17). The Essendon Gazette and Keilor, Bulla and Broadmeadows Reporter (Moonee Ponds, Vic. : 1914 - 1918), p. 5 Edition: Morning.. Retrieved February 4, 2012, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article74593757

Private E. C. Clarke, second son of Mr Joseph Clarke, news agent, Puckle street has been wounded a second time, the injuries being gunshot wounds in the leg, is at present in the Second Military Hospital, Canterbury, and has been at the front just two years.

ROLL OF HONOUR. (1917, November 1). The Essendon Gazette and Keilor, Bulla and Broadmeadows Reporter (Moonee Ponds, Vic. : 1914 - 1918), p. 3 Edition: Morning. Retrieved May 26, 2012, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article74604144