Service Details
- Branch of Service
- Army
- Conflict
- World War I (1914-1918)
- Date of Enlistment
- 06/05/1916
- Date of Discharge
- 28/08/1919
- Place of Enlistment
- Cootamundra NSW
Personal Details
- Gender
- Male
- Place of Birth
- Canberra ACT
- Address (at enlistment)
- Atkinson Street, Queanbeyan NSW (previously Yarralumla ACT)
- Occupation
- Labourer
- Next of Kin
- Jane McClafferty (wife), Prospect Street, Surry Hills NSW
Unit and Rank Details
- Service Number
- 6294
- Final Rank
- Private
- Final Unit
- 2 Battalion AIF
Commemoration
Queanbeyan RSL Wall of Remembrance, Crawford St, Queanbeyan NSW
Notes
McClafferty's father was a blacksmith at Yarralumla for many years before moving his business to Queanbeyan. McClafferty served as a Private with the 2nd Battalion in France from April 1917 including at the Second Battle of Bullecourt in May 1917. In October that year he was detached for duty with the Brigade Fuzing Squad and was then wounded by shrapnel in the back in November 1917 near Passchendaele. After recovering he returned to the 2nd Battalion at Hazebrouck in France in April 1918 and they fought in the major battles along the Somme and the Hindenburg Line during August and September 1918. He returned to Australia in July 1919 and was discharged in August 1919. He married Jane Heffernan in Sydney in 1916 and died there in 1941.
Description - height 5 feet 8 inches, weight 140 pounds, chest 33-35½ inches, dark complexion, grey eyes, brown hair, Catholic.
Sources
AWM First World War Unit Embarkation Rolls
NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920)
Monaro Pioneers Index - http://www.monaropioneers.com/pioneers.htm
Queanbeyan Age - 2 December 1904, 28 July 1916, 22 August 1919