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Born: 6 July 1885
Died: 19 July 1916
"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
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- Boone Claude Arthur : SERN 2-LIEUT : 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 – 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)
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- BOONE C. A. on the West Face of the Mosman War Memorial
- BOONE, C.A. on the Mosman Rowing Club Roll of Honour 1914-1918
- Boone, C.A. on the Mosman-Neutral Bay Rifle Club Roll of Honour
- Boone, C A on the St Peter's Anglican Church World War 1 Honour Roll
- Boone, C A on the St Clement's World War 1 Roll of Honour