HOLLINGSWORTH, Clyde

  1. Service Details
  2. Personal Details
  3. Unit and Rank Details
  4. Fate
  5. Commemoration
  6. Notes
  7. Sources

Service Details

Branch of Service
Army
Conflict
World War I (1914-1918)
Date of Enlistment
29/02/1916
Place of Enlistment
Hall ACT

Personal Details

Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Murrumbateman NSW
Address (at enlistment)
Hall via Queanbeyan ACT
School(s) Attended
Hall Public School, Ginninderra Public School
Occupation
Blacksmith
Next of Kin
Son of Mrs Susan Hollingsworth of Hall and the late Malachi Hollingsworth, brother of Florence Kevans.
Burial Place

France, 646 Queant Road Cemetery Buissy

Unit and Rank Details

Service Number
2424
Final Rank
Private
Final Unit
55 Battalion AIF

Fate

Died in action at Bullecourt, France on 11 May 1917, aged 23 years

Commemoration

AWM Roll of Honour Memorial Panel 160, Canberra ACT
Large stone tablet on outside of northern wall of St. John's Church, Reid ACT
Hall Public School Honour Roll (according to L.R. Smith)
Hall Memorial Grove, Victoria Street, Hall ACT
World War 1 Memorial, corner of Lowe St and Farrer Place, Queanbeyan NSW
Queanbeyan RSL Wall of Remembrance, Crawford St, Queanbeyan NSW

Notes

Hollingsworth was well-known locally as a master of ceremonies at community events, perhaps a skill gained from his parents who ran the Cricketers Arms Hotel in Hall from 1896 to 1905. He was farewelled at the Kinlyside Hall in Hall where he was presented with a watch and a fountain pen before embarking with reinforcements for the 55th Battalion. He arrived in France in February 1917 and would have been involved in the successful attack on Doignies in April 1917 by the 55th Battalion. Hollingsworth was killed by a piece of shell near the sunken road in front of Bullecourt on 11 May 1917. His brother-in-law, Jack Kevans, was captured during the 13th Battalion's ill-fated attack on Bullecourt on 11 April 1917.

The AWM image is a wooden grave marker erected by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission at the Queant Road Cemetery, Buissy, France. The wooden board carries the heading "Buried in this cemetery actual graves unknown" and names 28 Australian soldiers killed in action in France between March and May 1917, and their date of death. Hollingsworth's name is at the top of the third row. He is commemorated at the cemetery on Special Memorial C.3.

Sources

First World War Nominal Roll
First World War Unit Embarkation Rolls
AWM Roll of Honour Database
AWM Roll of Honour Circular
AWM Collections Record : P09077.001
NAA RecordSearch
Rex L. Cross, 'Bygone Queanbeyan', revised edition, 1985 (p.226)
Leon R. Smith, 'Memories of Hall', Canberra, Roebuck Society, 1975 (pp. 10, 50)
National Library of Australia : Country Women's Association of NSW (Canberra Branch) History, 1959 (manuscript call no. NLA MS 734)
'Telling the Story of our Kinlyside and Hollingsworth ancestors', unpublished manuscript at ACT Heritage Library, 2013
Queanbeyan Age - 14 March 1916, 17 March 1916, 31 July 1916, 17 July 1917, 11 November 1919
Images courtesy of Patricia Kinlyside

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Portrait of Clyde Hollingsworth, 1916. Image courtesy of Patricia Kinlyside.

Portrait of Clyde Hollingsworth, 1916. Image courtesy of Patricia Kinlyside.

Clyde Hollingsworth in France 1917. Postcard sent to his sister, Ada. Image courtesy of Patricia Kinlyside.

Clyde Hollingsworth in France 1917. Postcard sent to his sister, Ada. Image courtesy of Patricia Kinlyside.

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