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CLINGIN, George
Step 1: Personal Details
Service Number: | 4300 |
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Enlisted: | 5 February 1916, Place of enlistment - Blackboy Hill, Western Australia |
Last Rank: | Sapper |
Last Unit: | 3rd Tunnelling Company (inc. 6th Tunnelling Company) |
Born: | Hillsborough, Victoria, Australia, 27 March 1873 |
Home Town: | Southern Cross, Yilgarn, Western Australia |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Miner |
Died: | Illness - pneumonia whilst prisoner of war, Lazarett I Oschtz ( POW Military Hospital)Germany, 2 November 1918, aged 45 years |
Cemetery: |
Berlin South-Western Cemetery (& Italian Cemetery) Plot II, Row G, Grave 4 |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Beechworth Shire WW1 Honour Roll, Beechworth War Memorial, Southern Cross Honour Roll, Southern Cross War Memorial, Western Australia State War Memorial |
Biography contributed by Daryl Jones
Son of Arthur and Mary (nee Macpherson) Clingin.
Brother of Arthur Henry 1873, Francis Carins 1877, Wilfred Archibald 1879 and Albert Edward 1890 (2883 Lance Corporal 3rd Tunnelling Company AIF WW1 - returned to Australia)