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BARCLAY, Clifford Clapcott
(Service number 6/404)

Major David Grant and his subalterns pictured at Addington in September 1914 — Pictured are (from left to right): BACK ROW: Lt Francis Maurice, Lt Cliff Barclay, LKt John Hill; FRONT ROW: Lt Douglas Fraser, Major David Grant, David, Lt Raymond Lawry (South Canterbury Museum 2011/175.04)

2Lt Clifford Clapcott Barclay — (Supplement, Auckland Weekly News, 13 May 1915, p.39 )

St Augustine Church War Memorial, pictured in 2011 — (South Canterbury Museum )

Plaque, St Augustine Church War Memorial, pictured in 2011 — (South Canterbury Museum )

Waimate War Memorial, pictured in 2011 — (South Canterbury Museum 2013/155.33 #01)

Waimate War Memorial (left panel), pictured in 2011 — (South Canterbury Museum 2013/155.33 #04)

Aliases
First Rank	Lieutenant	Last Rank	Second Lieutenant

Birth

Date	25/04/1893	Place of Birth	Waimate

Enlistment Information

Date	13 August 1914	Age	21
Address at Enlistment	Waimate
Occupation	Stock Agent with Guinness & Le Cren, Waimate
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Lieut-Colonel H.C Barclay (father), Waimate
Religion	Presbyterian
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	Main Body
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Canterbury Infantry Battalion
Date	16 October 1914
Transport	Tahiti or Athenic
Embarked From	Lyttelton	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Canterbury Infantry Battalion

Military Awards

Campaigns
Service Medals	1914-1915 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
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	25 April 1915	Age	22
Place of Death	Gallipoli, Turkey
Cause	Killed in action
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Lone Pine Memorial, Lone Pine Cemetery, Anzac, Turkey
Memorial Reference	Panel 73
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru; St Augustine Church War memorial (as G C Barclay); Waimate First World War Memorial

Biographical Notes

Clifford landed at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915 and was recorded as wounded and missing. A court of enquiry in Jan 1916 confirmed his death from causes unknown. In his probate, the solicitor noted that his friends had not seen him killed nor ever found his body. Clifford left a will which was witnessed by Dr Cruickshank of Waimate who later died in the influenza outbreak.

Clifford was the son of Dr Herbert Clifford Barclay and Ruth Annie Barclay. Dr Barclay had a practice in Waimate and also one of the first people in Waimate to own a car. Dr Barclay had also been commissioned as a Captain in the Territorials in 1898, served with the Waimate Rifles Volunteers in 1901, appointed major in 1911, and Lt Colonel in 1914. He served in World War One and was attached to the Russian Field Hospital in Petrograd in Sept 1914 and later served in the RAMC in England until 1918. He died in England in 1932. Dr Barclay had married Ruth Annie Clapcott in 1890 and had four children, Dorothy Amy (b.1891), Clifford Clapcott (b.1893), Ruth Marjory Cruickshank (b.1899) and George Oliver Clapcott (b.1904).

Sources

Cenotaph Sep 2013; Paperspast http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/ ; Births, Deaths & Marriages online www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz

External Links

Researched and Written by

Carol Bell, SC branch NZSG & Timaru Herald; Liz Shea, SC branch NZSG

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