19/11/1915- Completed Medical Examination at Pinjarra, W.A.
27/11/1915- To No. 37 Depot Battalion Blackboy Hill, WA as Private
4/01/1916- To 10th Light Horse Regiment 14th Reinforcements WA
2/03/1916- To 3rd Light Horse Training Regiment Heliopolis Egypt
1/04/1916- Transferred to 4th Division Artillery Heliopolis Egypt
7/04/1916- Joined 4th Division Ammunition Column Serapeum Egypt and mustered as Gunner
1/05/1916- Mustered as Driver with 4th Division Ammunition Column Serapeum Egypt
13/06/1916- Disembarked Marseilles France ex Alexandria Egypt as part of the British Expeditionary Force
16/06/1916- Arrived Le Havre France ex Marseilles by Train
24/06/1916- Admitted 12th Casualty Clearing Station Croix Rouge ( Influenza ) ex 14 Ambulance Train ex 13th Australian Field Ambulance
8/07/1916- Admitted 3rd Canadian General Hospital Boulogne France ( Bronchitis )
12/07/1916- Evacuated/Admitted Kitchener’s Hospital Brighton England ex Boulogne France
1/08/1916- Transferred/Admitted No. 1 Australian Aux Hospital Harefield England ex Brighton
25/08/1916- Discharged to No. 2 Command Depot Weymouth England, classed as being temporarily unfit
1/10/1916- Transferred to Australian Artillery Training Depot Parkhurst England
10/11/1916- Joined 9th Field Artillery Brigade England
14/11/1916- To 3rd Division at Australian Artillery Training Depot Parkhouse England
19/12/1916- To No. 2 Camp at Larkhill England
21/12/1916- Joined 3rd Division Artillery at RBAA Larkhill England
16/03/1917- To Boyton Camp Brighton England
26/03/1917- Proceeded Overseas France ex Southampton ex Boyton Camp England
31/03/1917- At Beaulencourt with 14th Field Artillery Brigade then posted to 114th Battery, Mustered as a Gunner
6/07/1917- Re-Mustered as a Driver with 14th Field Artillery Brigade Beaucourt France
2/03/1918- Granted Leave England
21/03/1918- Rejoined Brigade at Dranoutre France ex Leave
28/05/1918- Admitted 14th Australian Field Ambulance in the field Bussy Les Daours France then transferred by Hospital Train to 47th Casualty Clearing Station ( Abscess near Right Ear )
6/06/1918- Rejoined 14th Field Artillery Brigade in the field France ex Illness
9/06/1918- Joined 5th Australian Division in the field France
16/09/1918- Rejoined 14th Field Artillery Brigade in the field Feuillers France
14/02/1919- Granted Leave England
3/03/1919- Rejoined Brigade in the field France ex Leave
10/04/1919- To No. 2 Command Depot Weymouth England ex France for Return to Australia
1/06/1919- Embarked England for Australia per ” Somali ”
8/07/1919- Disembarked Fremantle WA
30/08/1919- Discharged from Service.
**** Thanks to Debra Osborn ( dosborn@iinet.net.au ) for service details and additional information :-
Clarence McMahen is Debra’s Grandfather , and he was born on 2 July 1896, younger brother to Herbert.
Clarence died on 4 October 1938 ( Aged 42 years ), suffering from Pulmonary Tuberculosis, which was deemed to have been war – related.