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Clifford Herbert BARNES

Regimental number13
Date of birth30 April 1884
Place of birthDublin, South Australia
SchoolThebarton and Hindmarsh Public Schools, South Australia
ReligionChurch of England
OccupationFarm labourer
AddressKintore Street, Mile End, Adelaide, South Australia
Marital statusSingle
Age at embarkation30
Next of kinFather, A.D Barnes, Kintore Street, Mile End, Adelaide, South Australia
Enlistment date20 August 1914
Date of enlistment from Nominal Roll20 August 1914
Rank on enlistmentPrivate
Unit name2nd Battalion, A Company
AWM Embarkation Roll number23/19/1
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board HMAT A23 Suffolk on 18 October 1914
Rank from Nominal RollSergeant
Unit from Nominal Roll54th Battalion
FateReturned to Australia 30 October 1918
Discharge date23 February 1919
Family/military connectionsBrothers: 112 Benjamin Stewart BARNES [name not found of Nominal Roll]; 435 Pte Clarence Walter BARNES, 3rd Field Ambulance, returned to Australia, 11 May 1919.
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War service: Egypt, Gallipoli, Western Front

Wounded in action, 27 April 1915; admitted to No 1 Australian General Hospital, Heliopolis, Egypt; recovered and returned to duty. Wounded in action, Lone Pine, Gallipoli, 8 August 1915; admitted to No 1 Australian General Hospital, Heliopolis; recovered and returned to duty, 2 January 1916.

Wounded in action, Villers-Bretonneux, France, 19 April 1918; admitted to Epsom War Hospital, England.

Commenced return to Australia, 30 October 1918; disembarked Australia, 25 December 1918; discharged (medically unfit), 23 February 1919.

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

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