| Regimental number | 74 |
| Place of birth | Brisbane, Queensland |
| Other Names | KLOPP |
| Religion | Congregational |
| Occupation | Labourer |
| Address | Springsure via Rockhampton, Queensland |
| Marital status | Single |
| Age at embarkation | 33 |
| Next of kin | Sister, Miss Martha Clarke, c/o B G Wilson, Queen Street, Brisbane, Queensland |
| Enlistment date | |
| Rank on enlistment | Private |
| Unit name | 42nd Battalion, A Company |
| AWM Embarkation Roll number | 23/59/1 |
| Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board HMAT A30 Borda on |
| Rank from Nominal Roll | Private |
| Unit from Nominal Roll | 9th Battalion |
| Fate | Killed in Action |
| Place of death or wounding | Passchendaele, Ypres, Belgium |
| Age at death | 35 |
| Place of burial | No known grave |
| Commemoration details | The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 7), Belgium The Menin Gate Memorial (so named because the road led to the town of Menin) was constructed on the site of a gateway in the eastern walls of the old Flemish town of Ypres, Belgium, where hundreds of thousands of allied troops passed on their way to the front, the Ypres salient, the site from April 1915 to the end of the war of some of the fiercest fighting of the war. The Memorial was conceived as a monument to the 350,000 men of the British Empire who fought in the campaign. Inside the arch, on tablets of Portland stone, are inscribed the names of 56,000 men, including 6,178 Australians, who served in the Ypres campaign and who have no known grave. The opening of the Menin Gate Memorial on 24 July 1927 so moved the Australian artist Will Longstaff that he painted 'The Menin Gate at Midnight', which portrays a ghostly army of the dead marching past the Menin Gate. The painting now hangs in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, at the entrance of which are two medieval stone lions presented to the Memorial by the City of Ypres in 1936. Since the 1930s, with the brief interval of the German occupation in the Second World War, the City of Ypres has conducted a ceremony at the Memorial at dusk each evening to commemorate those who died in the Ypres campaign. |
| Panel number, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial | 55 |
| Miscellaneous information from cemetery records | Town. Brisbane, Queensland |
| Other details |
War service: Western Front Proceeded overseas to France from England, 16 September 1916; taken on strength, 9th Bn, 1 October 1916. Found guilty, 23 November 1916, of neglecting to obey Battalion ROs. in that he was out of bounds without a pass signed by his CO: awarded 72 hours' Field Punishment No. 2. Admitted to 5th Divisional Rest Station, 25 April 1917 (frost bite, left foot); transferred to 5th General Hospital,Rouen, 3 May 1917 (trench feet); to 2nd Convalescent Depot, 7 May 1917; rejoined Bn, 22 May 1917. Found guilty by Field General Court Martial, 4 July 1917, of being absent without leave while on active service from 0700, 16 June 1917, until apprehended by MP 1845, 16 June 1917: awarded 10 days' Field Punishment No. 2; in confinement while awaiting trial, 16 June-4 July 1917. On leave to England, 28 September 1917; rejoined Bn from leave, 17 October 1917. Killed in action, Belgium, 3 November 1917. Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal |
Postal Address:
Po Box 7916
Canberra BC 2610, Australia
Street Address:
Northcott Drive,
Campbell, ACT 2600
