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Clarence Brushfield SHEPLEY

Regimental number62348
Place of birthNorwood, South Australia
SchoolRose Park and Pulteney Street Public Schools and A.S. & B.T. Commercial College, South Australia
ReligionChurch of England
OccupationDraftsman
AddressRose Park, South Australia
Marital statusSingle
Age at embarkation19
Next of kinFather, F Shepley, 82 Hewitt Avenue, Rose Park, South Australia
Previous military service28th Signal Company Army Engineers; Served in the Cadets and the 28th Engineers, Citizen Military Forces, S.A.
Enlistment date13 May 1918
Rank on enlistmentPrivate
Unit name5th South Australian Reinforcements
AWM Embarkation Roll number23/111/4
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A37 Barambah on 31 August 1918
Rank from Nominal RollPrivate
Unit from Nominal RollGraves Registration Detachment
Other details from Roll of Honour CircularServed on the War Graves Detachment for 27th Battalion and died of pneumonia at 4th Stationary Hospital, France, on 26 July 1919.
FateDied of disease 26 July 1919
Place of death or woundingFrance
Age at death20
Age at death from cemetery records20
Place of burialSt. Pierre Cemetery (Plot XVI, Row A, Grave No. 2), Amiens, France
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
  Australian War Memorial
185
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Parents: Frank and Annie SHEPLEY, 82 Hewitt Avenue, Rose Park, South Australia
Family/military connectionsBrother: 2058 Pte Reginald Brushfield SHEPLEY, 10th Bn, killed in action, Pozieres, France, 20 August 1916; Cousin:.1089 Corporal Thomas Alan SHEPLEY, 16th Bn, killed in action, Gallipoli, 2 May 1915.

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