Arthur Gordon Le Clerc

Service number: 639

Rank: Sergeant

Unit: 13th Battalion (Infantry)

Service: Australian Army

Date of death: 14 August 1916

Cemetery or memorial details: Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, France

War Grave Register notes:

LE CLERC, Serjt. Arthur Gordon, 639. 13th Bn. 14th Aug., 1916, France. Age 23. Son of Thomas Francis and Joan Le Clerc. Born at Paddington, Sydney.

Source: AWM145 Roll of Honour cards, 1914-1918 War, Army

Arthur Le Clerc’s parents lived at Chatham, Lagoon Street, Narrabeen, where his mother kept a general store. He enlisted 14 September 1914, aged 21 and 9 months.

He served at Gallipoli and France. He was promoted to Sergeant, 3 December 1915. His brother Harry O Le Clerc also died during the war, and is commemorated on a headstone in Manly Cemetery, plot Z.082, but is not listed on the Corso War Memorial.