Next of kin plaque : Private Arthur Clement Clutterbuck, 27th Battalion, AIF

Bronze next of kin plaque, showing on the obverse, Britannia holding a laurel wreath, the British lion, dolphins, a spray of oak leaves and the words 'HE DIED FOR FREEDOM AND HONOUR' around the edge. Beneath the main figures, the British lion defeats the German eagle. The initials 'ECP', for the designer Edward Carter Preston appear above the lion's right forepaw. A raised rectangle above the lion's head bears the name 'ARTHUR CLEMENT CLUTTERBUCK. A checker's number, '33', is impressed behind the lion's left back leg.

Born in Kapunda, South Australia, Arthur Clement Clutterbuck was employed as a farmer near Lameroo when he enlisted in the AIF on 4 February 1916. After initial training he was posted a private, service number 4687, to the 12th Reinforcements for 27th Battalion. He embarked for overseas service from Adelaide on 11 April, aboard HMAT A60 Aeneas.

After further training in England Clutterbuck joined B Company of his battalion in France at La Vicogne on 11 August. He received a gunshot wound to his hand on 5 November at Bayonet Trench near Montauban, during an attack which failed due to muddy conditions. After hospital treatment Clutterbuck rejoined his unit in the middle of December only to be evacuated to England on 21 December with a suspected fractured tibia. This turned out to be an exacerbation of a fracture which he had incurred in Australia 1914 and after a period of rest and rehabilitation he rejoined his battalion in May 1917.

Clutterbuck was killed at Polygon Wood, Belgium, on 20 September 1917. A witness from the battalion, Private Wilbur Schram, wrote: 'On September 20th the Bn. [battalion] was holding a position in Polygon Wood. In the evening I saw S/Bs [stretcher bearers] turn a body over which was lying out in No Mans Land and I saw that it was Clutterbuck.' He was initially buried near Westhoek but his body was exhumed in 1925 and reinterred in the Divisional collecting Post Cemetery Extension at Ypres.

This commemorative plaque was sent to his father, John Wheeler Clutterbuck, in October 1922.