Claude John Ash
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ASH, Claude John
Service no: 6078
Place of birth: Parkes, 1893
Address: Lucknow, via Orange
Occupation: Labourer
Next of kin: Alice Norford (mother), Lucknow
Date of enlistment: 11 February 1915
Place of enlistment: Liverpool
Age at enlistment: 21
Fate: Embarked A19 Afric, Sydney, 17 May 1915. Admitted to No. 1 Australian General Hospital, Heliopolis, 16 September 1915. Appointed Lance Corporal 15 December 1915. Admitted to 4th Auxiliary Hospital suffering from mumps 19 December 1915. Discharged to duty 13 January 1916. Joined Mediterranean Expeditionary Force 20 March 1916. Admitted to Lahore Indian Stationary Hospital, Marseilles, with a hydatid cyst, 29 March 1916. Discharged to Base Depot 15 April 1916. Attached for duty with 1st Anzac Entrenching Battalion 21 December 1916. Taken on strength of 15th Company of 15th Army Service Corps 1 January 1917. Proceed on leave to England 9 July 1917. Rejoined unit 29 July 1917. Proceeded on leave to England 18 August 1918. Rejoined unit 5 September 1918. Proceeded to Paris on leave 17 December 1918. Rejoined unit 31 December 1918. Proceeded to England for return to Australia 30 January 1919. Admitted to 2nd Group Clearing Hospital suffering from influenza 1 March 1919. Discharged to duty 12 March 1919. Returned to Australia 25 May 1919.
Date of death: 16 August 1922
Buried: Orange Cemetery
