Studio portrait of 652 Private (Pte) Hubert Clement Clues, 16th Battalion, of Sale, Vic. A horse ...

Accession Number P08138.002
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Digital file TIFF
Maker Unknown
Date made c 1914
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Studio portrait of 652 Private (Pte) Hubert Clement Clues, 16th Battalion, of Sale, Vic. A horse driver prior to enlisting in September 1914, Pte Clues embarked from Melbourne on board HMAT Ceramic (A40) on 22 December 1914. As part of the 16th Battalion, Pte Clues landed at Anzac Cove on 25 April 1915. He was wounded at Gallipoli in May 1915 and spent some months recovering in England. He returned to his Battalion at Gallipoli in September 1915 and stayed until evacuation in December. In Egypt on 22 March 1916, Pte Clues was promoted to Corporal (Cpl). The 16th Battalion arrived in France in June 1916 to serve on the Western Front and on 5 February 1917 Cpl Clues was wounded in action by shell fire. In March 1917 he was demoted to Private for drunkeness while on leave in Paris. Pte Clues rejoined his battalion from hospital on 29 March 1917 and was killed in action at Bullecourt, France, on 11 April 1917. He was 24 years of age. Pte Hubert Clues was cousin to 1677 Pte Charles Clues also of Sale, Vic who had been killed in action at Gallipoli on 12 July 1915.