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ANDERSON, Peter
ANDREWS, Allan Robert
Red Cross records describes Clarence Andrews' death with the informant being Private Charles Woolford, also of the 22nd Reinforcements of the 12th Battalion:
“I helped to bury their bodies on the 10th April in a shell hole which was made by the shell that killed them, in the yard belonging to the old chateau at Morchies, not far from Lagnicourt. The shell blew them and a number of other men up while we were having breakfast on Easter Sunday morning in the chateau yard. I saw their dead bodies. We buried them next day on the spot where they were killed. Andrews belonged to the XVI Pl. D.Co and came over with me in the 22nd Rft. I knew him well. He came from somewhere near Launceston, Tasmania. He was dark, thick set, aged 23-24.
We had been out on patrol all night and on Easter Sunday morning about 7 o’clock we were having our breakfast behind the walls of an old chateau which was in ruins near Morchies near Fremecourt on the Somme, when a shell exploded amongst us killing four or five and wounding about the same number. Andrews was killed instantaneously hit on the temple and I, as S/B helped to bury him within the walls in a grave with two others. I put up a wooden cross with the names of Donoghue, Andrews and McRaigne. I knew him well we had been together since we sailed from Melbourne in the “Palermo” on Sept 30th 1916 and were in the same Company and platoon, D. XVI. He came from northern Tasmania, somewhere Launceston way.” Informant Pte C.E Woolford No. 6795.
A memorial headstone in memory of Private Clarence Andrews was erected by his family in George Town Tasmania in the George Town Cemetery. The epitah on his headstone reads "In Loving Memory of Private Clarence James Andrews. Died of wounds in France between the 6th and 12th of April 1917, Aged 22 years. Somewhere in France he is lying. he answered his country's call. He died an Australian Hero. Fighting to save us all".
Courtesy of Danielle Gray
“I helped to bury their bodies on the 10th April in a shell hole which was made by the shell that killed them, in the yard belonging to the old chateau at Morchies, not far from Lagnicourt. The shell blew them and a number of other men up while we were having breakfast on Easter Sunday morning in the chateau yard. I saw their dead bodies. We buried them next day on the spot where they were killed. Andrews belonged to the XVI Pl. D.Co and came over with me in the 22nd Rft. I knew him well. He came from somewhere near Launceston, Tasmania. He was dark, thick set, aged 23-24.
We had been out on patrol all night and on Easter Sunday morning about 7 o’clock we were having our breakfast behind the walls of an old chateau which was in ruins near Morchies near Fremecourt on the Somme, when a shell exploded amongst us killing four or five and wounding about the same number. Andrews was killed instantaneously hit on the temple and I, as S/B helped to bury him within the walls in a grave with two others. I put up a wooden cross with the names of Donoghue, Andrews and McRaigne. I knew him well we had been together since we sailed from Melbourne in the “Palermo” on Sept 30th 1916 and were in the same Company and platoon, D. XVI. He came from northern Tasmania, somewhere Launceston way.” Informant Pte C.E Woolford No. 6795.
A memorial headstone in memory of Private Clarence Andrews was erected by his family in George Town Tasmania in the George Town Cemetery. The epitah on his headstone reads "In Loving Memory of Private Clarence James Andrews. Died of wounds in France between the 6th and 12th of April 1917, Aged 22 years. Somewhere in France he is lying. he answered his country's call. He died an Australian Hero. Fighting to save us all".
Courtesy of Danielle Gray