Clifford Aubrey BARNES

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BARNES, Clifford Aubrey

Service Number:	3573
Enlisted:	13 August 1915, Hobart, Tasmania
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	15th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Longford, Tasmania, 10 July 1896
Home Town:	King Island, Tasmania
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Pneumonic Influenza, Caulfield, Victoria, Caulfield, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 14 June 1919, aged 22 years
Cemetery:	Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne Meth. Plot F, Row 14, Grave 29, Springvale Necropolis, Springvale, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Currie King Island Cenotaph

World War 1 Service

13 Aug 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Hobart, Tasmania
27 Oct 1915:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 3573, 15th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: ''
27 Oct 1915:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 3573, 15th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ulysses, Melbourne
Date unknown:	Involvement 15th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières

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Biography contributed by Elizabeth Allen

Clifford Aubrey BARNES was born on 10th July, 1896 at Longford, Tasmania

His parents were Albert John BARNES and Christina Hannah LEE

Biography

15 Battalion

Rank - Private

2 September 1916 wounded in action

9 August 1916 wounded in action

12 September 1916 rejoined unit

11 April 1917 - Prisoner of War - Limburg

15 December 1918 returned to England from POW camp

Returned to Australia 5 April 1919

Died of influenza and ulcerated indocarditis

Son of Albert John Barnes, King Island Tasmania. Brother of 1052 Pte William Albert Barnes, 26th Bn, returned to Australia, 17 May 1917

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