Participant Info

Surname

Nielsen

First Name

Clair

Initial

C

Service Number

5167

Rank

sapper

Unit Served

2nd Tunnelling Company

Service Record

France, Belgium

Enlistment Date

1915

Enlistment Month

October 21

Embarkation Year

1916

Embarkation Month

July 19

Date of Death

1918

Month of Death

November 16

Death Category

DOI

All Australia Memorial Reference

Australia's Fighting Families chapter, SA section H, notes page 12, image page 11

Also Known As

Spousal

Spousal Address

Spouse City

Spouse State

Parental Name

Captain Sophuis and Mrs. Maud Nielsen

Parental Address

Prince Street, Alberton

Parental City

Parental State

SA

Notes

"born Birkenhead, November 1, 1895, educated Le Fevres, Peninsula School, electrician, enlisted November 1915, embarked July 26, 1916. War service: France, Belgium (taken prisoner of war, Nieuport, July 1917), died in Germany, November 16, 1918, buried at