Portrait of Lieutenant (Lt) Aubrey Clyde Sinclair, 32nd Battalion. A confectioner from West ...

Portrait of Lieutenant (Lt) Aubrey Clyde Sinclair, 32nd Battalion. A confectioner from West Perth, Western Australia, prior to enlistment as a Private, he embarked as a Sergeant from Adelaide on 18 November 1915 aboard HMAT Geelong for Suez where he was promoted to CSM as a Warrant Officer Class II. His battalion relocated to the Western Front, France, during June 1916. CSM Sinclair was wounded in action at the Battle of Fromelles and while recuperating in Boulogne was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant before rejoining his unit in mid-August 1916. Three months later he was promoted to Lieutenant. In early December 1916 he was evacuated to England for treatment of trench feet and a fractured foot before rejoining the 32nd Battalion in late February 1917. In August 1917 he was posted to the 8th Training Battalion in England for a 12 month tour and then rejoined his unit on the Western Front near Amiens, France in early August 1918. Lt Sinclair was killed in action near St Quentin, France, on 29 September 1918 and is buried in the Bellicourt British Cemetery. He was aged 30 years.