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Frederick Herbert CLOUTING

Regimental number6307
Place of birthThetford, Norfolk, England
ReligionChurch of England
OccupationStockman
AddressPerth, Western Australia
Marital statusSingle
Age at embarkation32
Next of kinMother, Mrs G Clouting, 'Carlyon', Granville Road, Seven Oaks, Kent, England
Previous military serviceNil
Enlistment date25 February 1915
Rank on enlistmentDriver
Unit nameAustralian Army Service Corps 16th Company
AWM Embarkation Roll number25/104/1
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A19 Afric on 22 May 1915
Rank from Nominal RollDriver
Unit from Nominal Roll16th Company, Australian Army Service Corps
Recommendations (Medals and Awards)

Distinguished Conduct Medal


Courage and devotion to duty under fire. Also valuable assistance in evacuation work. (Pozieres).
Recommendation date: 24 September 1916

FateKilled in Action 3 November 1917
Age at death from cemetery records34
Place of burialNo known grave
Commemoration detailsThe Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 17), 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
181
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Parents: John Revett and Gracen CLOUTING, 'Carlyon', Granville Road, Sevenoaks, Kent, England. Native of Thetford, Norfolk, England
Other details

War service: Middle East, Western Front

Embarked from Melbourne, 22 May 1915.

Appointed Lance Corporal, 16 March 1916.

Proceeded from Alexandria to join the British Expeditionary Force, 20 March 1916; disembarked Marseilles, 28 March 1916. Promoted Sergeant, 2 May 1916. Detached to 6th Infantry Brigade, Transport Section, 10 July 1916; rejoined unit, 6 August 1916. On leave to England, 29 September 1916; rejoined unit, 10 October 1916.

Admitted to 5th Field Ambulance, 13 November 1916 (neurasthenia), and transferred to 36th Casualty Clearing Station. Transferred to 12th General Hospital, Rouen, 15 November 1916; transferred to England, 27 November 1916, and admitted to 2nd Southern General Hospital, 29 November 1916 (psychathenia, slight). Discharged to 3rd Auxiliary Hospital, 8 December 1916. Granted furlough, 18 December 1916, to report to No. 1 Command Depot, Perham Downs, 3 January 1917. Marched in to AASC Training Depot, 30 January 1917. Proceeded overseas to France, 19 September 1917; rejoined 16th Company, AASC, 4 October 1917.

Killed in action, 3 November 1917.

Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

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