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Clive BILL

Regimental number2792
Place of birthHawthorn, Victoria
SchoolWest Hawthorn State School, Victoria
ReligionChurch of England
OccupationLabourer
AddressHawthorn, Victoria
Marital statusSingle
Age at embarkation19
Height5' 6"
Weight145 lbs
Next of kinMother, Mrs M J Bill, 96 Elgin Street, Hawthorn, Victoria
Previous military serviceServed for 1 year in the Yarra Borderers, 56th Infantry, Citizen Military Forces.
Enlistment date7 July 1915
Place of enlistmentMelbourne, Victoria
Rank on enlistmentPrivate
Unit name8th Battalion, 9th Reinforcement
AWM Embarkation Roll number23/25/3
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board SS Makarini on 15 September 1915
Rank from Nominal RollPrivate
Unit from Nominal Roll59th Battalion
FateKilled in Action 19 July 1916
Place of death or woundingFleurbaix, France (Battle of Fromelles)
Date of death19 July 1916
Age at death20
Age at death from cemetery records20
Place of burialNo known grave
Commemoration detailsV.C. Corner (Panel No 15), Australian Cemetery, Fromelles, France
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
  Australian War Memorial
167
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Parents: Thomas and Mary J. BILL, 96 Elgin Street, Hawthorn, VIctoria
Family/military connectionsBrother: 1314/1437 Pte Lawrence BILL, 14th Bn, returned to Australia, 20 October 1915.
Other details

War service: Egypt, Gallipoli, Western Front

Found guilty, 5 November 1915, of while on Active Service, parading sick without cause: awarded 5 days' confined to camp.

Taken on strength of 8th Bn, Anzac, 7 December 1915.

Disembarked Alexandria, 7 January 1916.

Transferred to 60th Bn, 22 February 1916; taken on strength of 60th Bn, Tel el Kebir, 24 February 1916.

Transferred to 59th Bn, 15 March 1916; taken on strength of 59th Bn, Tel el Kebir, 15 March 1916.

Embarked Alexandria to join the British Expeditionary Force, 18 June 1916; disembarked Marseilles, France, 29 June 1916.

Posted missing, 19 July 1916.

Court of Enquiry, held in the field, 29 August 1917, pronounced fate as 'Killed in Action, 19 July 1916'.

Note on B.103, 'presumed buried in No Man's Land at 5J9043 to 5K0251 Sheet Hazebrouck 5a'.

Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
SourcesNAA: B2455, BILL Clive

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