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Claude Branscombe Vaughan CAMERON

Regimental number3039
Place of birthBrighton, Victoria
SchoolState School, Hawksburn; All Saints Grammar School and Hassetts College, Prahran, Victoria
ReligionPresbyterian
OccupationClerk
Marital statusSingle
Age at embarkation20
Height5' 8.5"
Weight133 lbs
Next of kinFather, J H Cameron, 56 Oban Street, Hawksburn, Victoria
Previous military serviceServed for 18 months in the Senior Cadets; 2 years in the 49th Infantry, Citizen Military Forces.
Enlistment date28 June 1915
Place of enlistmentMelbourne, Victoria
Rank on enlistmentActing Corporal
Unit name21st Battalion, 7th Reinforcement
AWM Embarkation Roll number23/38/2
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A18 Wiltshire on 18 November 1915
Rank from Nominal RollCorporal
Unit from Nominal Roll60th Battalion
FateKilled in Action 19 July 1916
Place of death or woundingFleurbaix, France
Age at death21
Place of burialNo known grave
Commemoration detailsV.C. Corner (Panel No 19), Australian Cemetery Memorial, Fromelles, France
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
  Australian War Memorial
169
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Parents: James and Fritzina CAMERON. Native of Brighton, Victoria
Other details

War service: Egypt, Western Front

Taken on strength, 60th Bn, Tel el Kebir, 26 February 1916.

Reverted to the ranks from Lance Corporal, 5 March 1916.

Appointed Lance Corporal, Ferry Post, 13 April 1916.

Promoted Corporal, Duntroon Plateau, 5 June 1916.

Embarked Alexandria to join the British Expeditionary Force, 18 June 1916; disembarked Marseilles, France, 29 June 1916.

Reported Missing, 19 July 1916.

Court of Enquiry, held in the field, 4 August 1917, pronounced fate as 'Killed in Action, 19 July 1916'.

Note on Red Cross File No 671101: 'No trace Germany. Cert. by Capt. Mills 10-10-1919.'

Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
SourcesNAA: B2455, CAMERON Claude Branscombe Vaughan
Red Cross File No 671101

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