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CLARKSON, Lawrence Carlyle
(Service number 57479)

Aliases
First Rank	Corporal	Last Rank	Private

Birth

Date	Unknown	Place of Birth

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment
Occupation	Mill hand
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	Mrs A. E. CLARKSON (mother), 15 Grey Street, Timaru
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	29th Reinforcements, Canterbury Infantry Regiment, C Company
Date	15 August 1917
Transport	Ruahine
Embarked From		Destination	Glasgow, Scotland

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Canterbury Regiment

Military Awards

Campaigns
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Military Awards

Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
PoW Camps
Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date		Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	24 July 1947	Age	54 years
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Timaru Cemetery
Memorial Reference	Services Section, Row 102, Plot 22
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Lawrence Carlyle Clarkson was born on 15 November 1892 at Timaru, the son of Frederick Charles and Annie Elizabeth (née Cory) Clarkson.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [02 December 2016]; Timaru Cemetery headstone image (Timaru District Council) [03 December 2016]

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