| Regimental number | 2366 |
| Place of birth | Maitland, New South Wales |
| School | Maitland Superior Public School, New South Wales |
| Religion | Methodist |
| Occupation | Labourer |
| Address | Ourimbah, New South Wales |
| Marital status | Married |
| Age at embarkation | 35.8 |
| Height | 5' 10" |
| Weight | 160 lbs |
| Next of kin | Mrs Martha Nancarrow, Ourimbah, New South Wales |
| Previous military service | Nil |
| Enlistment date | |
| Date of enlistment from Nominal Roll | |
| Place of enlistment | Gosford, New South Wales |
| Rank on enlistment | Private |
| Unit name | 36th Battalion, 4th Reinforcement |
| AWM Embarkation Roll number | 23/53/2 |
| Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board HMAT A30 Borda on |
| Rank from Nominal Roll | Private |
| Unit from Nominal Roll | 36th Battalion |
| Fate | Killed in Action |
| Place of death or wounding | Passchendaele, Ypres, Belgium |
| Age at death | 36 |
| Age at death from cemetery records | 36 |
| Place of burial | No known grave |
| Commemoration details | The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 25), 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 | 127 |
| Miscellaneous information from cemetery records | Parents: Henry and Jane NANCARROW; husband of M. NANCARROW, Ourimbah, New South Wales. Native of Maitland, New South Wales |
| Other details |
War service: Western Front Embarked Sydney, 17 October 1916; found guilty, at sea, 10 December 1916, of failing to report at place of rendezvous appointed by OC: absent from Tattoo, 7 pm, 29 November, till arrested by guard at 6.30 pm, 30 November 1916: awarded 24 hours' detention, and forfeited 2 days' pay; disembarked Plymouth, England, 9 January 1917, and marched into 9th Training Bn. Proceeded overseas to France, 5 April 1917; taken on strength, 36th Bn, in the field, 28 April 1917.Ãdmitted to 11th Field Ambulance, Belgium, 20 July 1917 (diarrhoea); transferred to Divisional Rest Station, 24 July 1917; rejoined Bn, 3 August 1917. Reported missing in action, 12 October 1917. Court of Enquiry, 4 April 1918, concluded: 'Killed in action, 12 October 1917. Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal |
| Sources | NAA: B2455, NANCARROW Claude Eugene |
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