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CLEAR, Selby George
(Service number 6/1813)

Aliases	Enlisted as George Clear.
First Rank	Lance Corporal	Last Rank

Birth

Date	*1888	Place of Birth	NZ

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Care of Mr Black, Waihaorunga
Occupation
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Ellen CLEAR (mother), Mitchell Street, Waimate
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	4th Reinforcements
Date	Canterbury Infantry Battalion
Transport	Willochra or Knight Templar or Waitomo
Embarked From		Destination

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

Campaigns
Service Medals
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	9 July 1958	Age	70 years
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Waimate Old Cemetery
Memorial Reference	Anglican Area, Plot 617
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Selby George Cleary was the fifth child of Joseph Sealy and Ellen [née Tipping) Clear. His older brother William Tipping Clear died of disease in 1918; brother Cyril John Clear served in World War I, and brother Frank Clifford was drawn in the ballot. .

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [05 May 2019]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [13 May 2019]; Waimate Cemetery record

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Researched and Written by

Teresa Scott, SC branch NZSG

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