Regimental number | 6307 |
Place of birth | Thetford, Norfolk, England |
Religion | Church of England |
Occupation | Stockman |
Address | Perth, Western Australia |
Marital status | Single |
Age at embarkation | 32 |
Next of kin | Mother, Mrs G Clouting, 'Carlyon', Granville Road, Seven Oaks, Kent, England |
Previous military service | Nil |
Enlistment date | |
Rank on enlistment | Driver |
Unit name | Australian Army Service Corps 16th Company |
AWM Embarkation Roll number | 25/104/1 |
Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A19 Afric on |
Rank from Nominal Roll | Driver |
Unit from Nominal Roll | 16th 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: |
Fate | Killed in Action |
Age at death from cemetery records | 34 |
Place of burial | No known grave |
Commemoration details | The 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 |