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Memorial To Service Number, 618750, Private, Clarence Bertram Poyser, Late, 1st Australian Light Horse And His Mother, Norah Mary Poyser.
Memorial To Service Number, 618750, Private, Clarence Bertram Poyser, Late, 1st Australian Light Horse And His Mother, Norah Mary Poyser.

Memorial to : Service Number 618750, Private, Clarence Bertram Poyser, 1st Australian Light Horse, served as : Clarence Wilson he saw service in the Dardanelles.
Born : 1st June 1897, Derby, the Son of Ernest Arthur and Norah Mary Poyser of 138. Robinson Road, Mapperley, Nottingham.
Resident of Derby.
According to the 1911 Census the Family lived at : 143. Robin Hood Chase, St. Ann’s, Nottingham.
Listed as a passenger : Mr. C. Poyser, Errand Boy on the “Port Lincoln” departed : London on 29th July 1913 bound for Australia.
Enlisted : 1st November 1914 as a 20 year old Groom called Clarence Wilson in the Australian Imperial Force.
Residence : Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Embarked : Sydney, New South Wales, Australia on HMAT Anglo-Egyptian (Pennant number : A25) on the 8th February 1915 with the 1st Light Horse Brigade, 1st Light Horse Regiment, 2nd Reinforcements.
A Court Martial was held on the 31st May 1915 , he was awarded 28 days detention.
He was admitted to the No.1 Australian General Hospital, Heliopolis on 11th August 1915 with Rheumatism, transferred to Convalescent Camp on the 18th August 1915.
Embarked for Gallipoli Peninsula on H.T. Huntsend, reported for duty and taken on strength of 1st Light Horse Regiment on the 28th August 1915, he was sent to Hospital whilst at Gallipoli, transferred to and admitted to the No.2 Australian General Hospital at Heliopolis on the 20th December 1915 then transferred again to the Enteric Convalescent Hospital, Port Said on the 6th January 1916, a medical report completed on the 12th January 1916 at Enteric Fever Convalescent Camp, Port Said, it said he contracted Enteric on the 14th September 1915 at Anzac Cove through an infection as a result of Military Service, he was bedbound for 11 weeks and developed Dysentery whilst in bed, it was recommended that he returned to Australia for 3 months.
Embarked from Suez for Australia on H.T. Commonwealth on the 21st January 1916 with Enteric Fever, admitted to No.4 Australian General Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia on the 8th May 1916.
A further medical report stated his condition as Convalescent Enteric - non carrier, refused operation, permanently unfit, recommended discharge.
Discharged from the Australian Imperial Force in consequence of medical fitness at the 2nd Military District on the 11th July 1916.
His Mother Norah Mary Died 19th July 1930, aged 58 is buried in the same Family grave.
Died : At his Parent’s home in Nottingham of Pneumonia on the 3rd December 1916, aged 19.
Buried : Nottingham General Cemetery.
Grave Reference : 04391.
CWGC Reference : 2750545.
Also Commemorated : St. Ann’s District Virtual War Memorial as : Clarence Poyser.
Australian War Memorial as : Service Number 750, Private Clarence Bertram Poyser.
Virtual War Memorial Australia as Poyser, Clarence Bertram.
Photograph taken : 22nd May 2022.
Copyright : Gary Crosby.

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Taken on: May 22, 2022
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Memorial To Service Number, 618750, Private, Clarence Bertram Poyser, Late, 1st Australian Light Horse And His Mother, Norah Mary Poyser.

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