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Claude Arthur Boone

(Confirmed)

Born: 6 July, 1885

Died: 19 July, 1916

Biographical Summary:

"I saw in orders the other night the sad fate of Claud Boone my old Rowing Club skipper. He had just joined his Battalion as a Second Lieut. He was one of the finest chaps it has been my lot to meet. I feel very much for his home folk." 
Stanley Hayne, in his diary, 5 August 1916.

A clerk, and member of the Mosman Rowing Club, prior to enlisting in August 1915, he embarked from Sydney on board HMAT Nestor (A71) with the 16th Reinforcements on 9 April 1916. He joined the 54th Battalion at Suez on 30 May 1916 and arrived in France on 29 June 1916. 2 Lt Boone was killed in action at the Battle of Fromelles, France, on 19 July 1916 when a shell exploded in a trench occupied by his unit. He was 31 years of age. His brother 27188 Gunner Lionel Jack Boone, 26th Battery, returned to Australia but died in 1924.
Source: AWM P08200.002

Recorded Names:

• Boone, Claude Arthur
• Claude Arthur Boone

Service Number:

Ranks:

• Held rank of Lieut
• Held rank of Second Lieutenant
• Held rank of 2nd Lieutenant

Birth Records:

• 6 July, 1885 in Leichhardt, NSW, Australia

Death Records:

• Died on service
• Killed in action
• 19 July, 1916 in France
• 19 July, 1916

Life Events:

• Embarked from Sydney on the HMAT Nestor

Address:

• Hugundra 18 Orlando Avenue Mosman NSW Australia
• Hagundra 22 Royalist Road Mosman NSW Australia

Relationships:

• brother - Lionel Jack Boone
• father - John Westcott Boone
• mother - Margaret Connell McPhee

Organisations:

• Member of - ,,
• Member of - ,,
• Member of - ,,
• Member of - 54th Battalion, AIF

Main Sources:

• Boone Claude Arthur SERN 2LIEUT POB Sydney NSW POE Liverpool NSW NOK F Boone John Westcott (Item)
• Discovering Anzacs (Webpage)
• Roll of Honour Claude Arthur Boone (Webpage)
• First World War Embarkation Roll Claude Arthur Boone (Webpage)
• Red Cross Wounded and Missing Claude Arthur Boone (Webpage)
• 2nd Lieutenant Claude Arthur Boone 2nd Battalion (Photograph)
• Find War Dead ndash Boone Claude Arthur (Webpage)
• RECRUITING (Newspaper Article)
• WAR CASUALTIES LIEUT BOONE (Newspaper Article)
• Birth Notice (Newspaper Article)
• 192nd CASUALTY LIST 64 Dead Over 500 Wounded (Newspaper Article)
• ROWING Farewell Mosman Rowing Club (Newspaper Article)
• AMONG THE OARSMEN (Newspaper Article)

Commemorations:

• BOONE C. A. on the West Face of the
• BOONE on the Mosman Rowing Club Roll of Honour 19141918
• C.A. on the MosmanNeutral Bay Rifle Club Roll of Honour
• Boone on the St Peter's Anglican Church World War 1 Honour Roll
• C.A. on the St Clement's World War 1 Roll of Honour