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Holliday, Clifford Dawson

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USyd

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World War I

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Portrait C.D. HOLLIDAY from Newingtonian 191406 Jun 1914 copy.jpg [389kB]

Family name

Holliday

Given name(s)

Clifford Dawson

Initials

C.D.

Gender

Male

Naming note

Known as Bob

Early education

Holliday, C.D. : Dubbo Public School, 1902 - 1905Holliday, C.D. : Hornsby Public SchoolHolliday, C.D. : Newington College, 1905 - 1914

Tertiary education

Holliday C.D. : Arts.Arts II, 1915, University of Sydney

Education notes

Scholarships established by his parents in his memory at both Newington College and Sydney Uni.

Birth

Holliday C.D. : Life.Birth 21 Dec 1894 - @ Kogarah [ NSW Australia ]

Military service

Holliday C.D. : Military and health.Served: Corporal [ France ] - 1916Holliday C.D. : Military and health.Enlisted: Corporal 31 Aug 1915

Survived

Died during WWI

Death

Holliday C.D. : Death 20 Jul 1916 Killed in Action @ Fromelles [ France ]

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HOLLIDAY CLIFFORD DAWSON.pdf [ file_data/pdfs_from_BOR pdf 17901 ]

OCRd book entry or other narrative

Arts II : Corporal, 54th Battn., A.I.F., France. Enlisting 31st August, 1915, and sailing 8th March, 1916, with 15th Reinforcements 2nd Battn., joined 54th in Egypt 20th April and, crossing to France in June, served till death. Killed in Action, Fleurbaix, 20th July, 1916. Commemorated in Fromelles Memorial. Early education at Hornsby and Dubbo Public Schools and Newington College (Dux). In the dawn of a splendid manhood he gave himself, his greatest gift, and wrote as he faced the firing line ‘"I am where I think I ought to be and where I believe God
means me to be, and I have no fears for the future for I am in His care"

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Portrait of C.D. Holliday from 'The Newingtonian' [ jpg ]Photo of Clifford Dawson Holliday's headstone, Fromelles [ jpg ]

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