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Clive Frederic Alan ROCHE

Regimental number16137
Date of birth4 May 1898
Place of birthRockhampton, Queensland
SchoolMount Morgan State School, Queensland
ReligionChurch of England
OccupationElectrician
AddressBrisbane, Queensland
Marital statusSingle
Age at embarkation18
Next of kinMother, Mrs Augusta Roche, Sandgate Road, Albion, Brisbane, Queensland
Enlistment date15 February 1916
Rank on enlistmentSapper
Unit nameNovember 1916 Reinforcements
AWM Embarkation Roll number14/42/2
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board HMAT A29 Suevic on 11 November 1916
Rank from Nominal RollSapper
Unit from Nominal Roll7th Field Company Engineers
FateEffective abroad (still overseas)
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Parents: Alan Stuart and Augusta Jane ROCHE
Other details

Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal Suffered schrapnel wounds to the legs while serving at Ypres, Belgium and was also subjected to gas.

Re-enlisted in WWII and it was when he was travelling to Rockhampton in an Army vehicle which was involved in a road accident that he was killed

Date of death26 May 1940
Age at death42
Place of burialYeppoon Town Cemetery, Queensland

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