| Regimental number | 4386 |
| Place of birth | Port Augusta, South Australia |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
| Occupation | Clerk |
| Address | Mileham Street, Windsor, New South Wales |
| Marital status | Single |
| Age at embarkation | 23 |
| Height | 5' 9.25" |
| Weight | 134 lbs |
| Next of kin | Father, C Clifford, Mileham Street, Windsor, New South Wales |
| Previous military service | Nil (lived in Exempt Area) |
| Enlistment date | |
| Rank on enlistment | Private |
| Unit name | 20th Battalion, 11th Reinforcement |
| AWM Embarkation Roll number | 23/37/2 |
| Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board HMAT A71 Nestor on |
| Rank from Nominal Roll | Private |
| Unit from Nominal Roll | 20th Battalion |
| Fate | Killed in Action |
| Place of burial | No known grave |
| Commemoration details | The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 23), 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 | 90 |
| Miscellaneous information from cemetery records | Town. Windsor, New South Wales |
| Family/military connections | Brother: 66434 Pte Oscar CLIFFORD, New South Wales Reinforcement 21, name does not appear on Nominal Roll [ship embarked, 22 October 1918; probably recalled on account of cessation of hostilities] |
| Other details |
War service: Western Front Embarked Sydney, 2 May 1916; disembarked Plymouth, England, 23 June 1916. Appointed Lance Corporal, 17 November 1916. Proceeded overseas to France, 21 November 1916. Marched out to Anti-Gas Course, Oxelans, 27 November-1 December 1916. Promoted Corporal, 17 April 1917. Rejoined 34th Bn, Belgium, 13 June 1917. Promoted Lance Sergeant, 30 August 1917. Detached to Divisional Bomb School, 17 September 1917; rejoined Bn, 23 September 1917. Killed in action, Belgium, 1 October 1917. Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal |
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