Claude Cambourne SEYMOUR

SEYMOUR, Claude Cambourne

    Service Number: 3440
    Enlisted: 25 July 1915, Enlisted at Warwick Farm, NSW
    Last Rank: Sergeant
    Last Unit: 55th Infantry Battalion
    Born: Ashfield, New South Wales, Australia, 1895
    Home Town: Summer Hill, Ashfield, New South Wales
    Schooling: Not yet discovered
    Occupation: Clerk
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    World War 1 Service

    25 Jul 1915: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3440, 55th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Warwick Farm, NSW
    2 Nov 1915: Involvement Private, 3440, 3rd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: ''
    2 Nov 1915: Embarked Private, 3440, 3rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Euripides, Sydney
    27 Jul 1916: Promoted AIF WW1, Corporal, 55th Infantry Battalion
    23 Mar 1917: Transferred AIF WW1, Corporal, 61st Infantry Battalion , From 55th Battalion
    1 Jun 1917: Promoted AIF WW1, Lance Sergeant, 55th Infantry Battalion
    19 Sep 1917: Transferred AIF WW1, Sergeant, 55th Infantry Battalion, From 61st Battalion
    2 Sep 1918: Wounded AIF WW1, Sergeant, 3440, 55th Infantry Battalion, Gunshot wound to the eye. Invalided to England on 5 September 1918
    17 Mar 1919: Discharged AIF WW1, Sergeant, 3440, 55th Infantry Battalion, Discharged at the 2nd Military District as medically unfit due to eye wound

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    Biography contributed by Carol Foster

    Son of Frederick Seymour and Louisa Seymour of Grosvenor Crescent, Summer Hill, NSW

    Commenced return to Australia on 12 December 1918 aboard HT Somerset disembarking on the 10 January 1919

    During 1919 Claude married Eleanor F.I. MacFarlane in Ashfield, NSW

    Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

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