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CLARK, George Harold Freer
(Service number 61084)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Private

Birth

Date	25/07/1891	Place of Birth	Timaru, Canterbury

Enlistment Information

Date	30 June 1917	Age	26 years
Address at Enlistment	Stratford
Occupation	Banker
Previous Military Experience	Territorials
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	C. C. H. CLARK (father), The Matai, Nelson
Religion	Roman Catholic
Medical Information	Height 5 feet 10 inches. Weight 136 lbs. Complexion dark. Eyes brown. Hair black. Had had rheumatic fever.

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	33rd Reinforcements, Specialist Company
Date	31 December 1917
Transport	Athenic
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Glasgow, Scotland

Other Units Served With	Wellington Company; Composite Reserve Battalion (Otago Company); Second Battalion, Wellington Regiment, 11 Company
Last Unit Served With	Wellington Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion, 11th (Taranaki) Company

Military Awards

Campaigns	Western Front
Service Medals	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

1 October 1918 gunshot wound. 3 October 1918 admitted 22 General Hospital. 10 October 1918 admitted Southwark Military Hospital, East Dulwich Grove - severe arm fracture. 13 December 1918 admitted Hornchurch. 19 December 1918 admitted to Walton-on-Thames.

Post-war Occupations

Bank manager

Death

Date	30 January 1976	Age	84 years
Place of Death	Palmerston North
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Kelvin Grove Crematorium, Palmerston North
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

George Harold Freer Clark was the son of Claude Haughton Haffenden and Mary Frances (née Freer) Clark. While training at Sling Camp George qualified First Class Signaller. He served as a signaller in France. He embarked for the return to New Zealand on 18 January 1919 per the Zealandic. George married Millie Curtis in 1922. His brothers Henry Claude Clark and Percy Macquarie Clark also served in World War One.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [23 January 2017]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [23 January 2017]

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