Military History

Embarked Sydney per HMAT A7 ‘Medic’ 1.8.1917.
Roll Rank Private.
Roll Unit Army Medical Corps.
Clark and his Army Medical Corps unit transferred from HMAT ‘Medic’ to S.S. ‘Orita,’ at Halifax, Nova Scotia 21.9.1917, before proceeding on to Liverpool, UK, where they disembarked 3.10.1917. He marched in to Parkhouse Army Medical Corps Training Depot. After a period of intensive training he proceeded overseas to France with Army Medical Corps 18.10.1917. He transferred to 8th Field Ambulance 24.10.1917 and was wounded in action with a gunshot wound to his left foot 28.11.1917 at Ypres (possibly at the Battle of Passchendaele) (Reported West Australian Newspaper 12.1.1918). On discharge from Hospital, he was declared fit for active service and rejoined his unit in France 10.12.1917. Clark was hospitalised with influenza 21.10.1918. He was admitted to hospital sick with a debility 15.10.1918 and rejoined his unit 25.1.1919. Clark was married in England to Lois Marie Francois Sweet 1.7.1919. Prior to returning, he was admitted to hospital with scabies 19.9.1919. He returned to Australia with is new wife.
Embarked from England with his wife per ‘Mahana’ 25.9.1919 for Australia.
Returned/Disembarked Fremantle 3.11.1919.
Discharged 3.12.1919.
Final Rank Private, Army Medical Corps.
Medical Condition Reported good (wounded once)
Awards and Medals British War Medal, Victory Medal.
Notes Clark and his wife moved from WA to NSW in 1930 to reside there
Photos HMAT 'Medic' 1914. Photographer Hood, Samuel J. Photograph source AWM H19319
             Australian Army Medical Corps. Photographer unknown, photograph source AWM P04193.002
             Passchendaele 1917. Photographer unknown, photograph source AWM E01200

Information Source
AWM H19319. HMAT 'Medic' 1914. Photographer Hood, Samuel J. Photograph sourced from the Pictorial Collection of the Australian War Memorial
AWM P04193.002. Australian Army Medical Corps. Photographer unknown, photograph sourced from the Pictorial collection of the Australian War Memorial
AWM E01200. Passchendaele 1917. Photographer unknown, photograph sourced from the Pictorial Collection of the Australian War Memorial
Australian War Memorial Embarkation Roll- Theodore Frank Clark
Guildford War Memorial
NAA: B2455, Clark T P
West Australian Newspaper
Wise H. and Coy. Western Australian Post Office Directories. SLWA

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