Service Details
- Branch of Service
- Army
- Conflict
- World War I (1914-1918)
- Date of Enlistment
- 14/08/1914
- Date of Discharge
- 21/02/1919
- Place of Enlistment
- Royal Military College, Duntroon ACT
Personal Details
- Gender
- Male
- Date of Birth
- 07/10/1893
- Place of Birth
- Warwick, Queensland
- Address (at enlistment)
- Royal Military College, Duntroon ACT
- School(s) Attended
- Toowoomba Grammar School
- Occupation
- Soldier
- Next of Kin
- Albert Clowes (father), Warwick, Queensland
Unit and Rank Details
- Final Rank
- Major
- Final Unit
- 2 Division Artillery AIF
Awards and Honours
Military Cross (Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: 29 June 1917, page 1390, position 5), Distinguished Service Order (Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: 7 November 1918, Page 2110, position 31), French Croix de Guerre (Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: 12 February 1919, page 268, position 1), Mention in Despatches (Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: 24 October 1918, page 2055, position 104)
Notes
Clowes and his brother Cyril entered the Royal Military College on 22 June 1911 in the first intake of cadets and he was a member of the Honour Guard at the naming ceremony in Canberra on 12 March 1913. His class was graduated early on 14 August 1914 and Clowes was appointed as a lieutenant with the 3rd Field Artillery Brigade. He landed on Gallipoli with his brother, Cyril. He received a gun shot wound to the chest on 5 May and was hospitalised in England. He was appointed as a Staff Captain in the 2nd Division Artillery and was awarded the Military Cross and the Distinguished Service Order for his work during 1916 particularly during the fighting around Pozieres in France.
After the war he served with the Indian Army from 1922 to 1930 and then the British Army from 1931. He commanded the 1st Battalion of the Manchester Regiment and served in the Palestine Rebellion of 1937-1938. From 1946 until his retirement in 1949 he served as Aide-de-Camp to King George VI. He died in 1980.
Description - height 5 feet 9¾ inches, weight 130.5 pounds, chest 35 inches, Church of England.
Sources
AWM First World War Unit Embarkation Rolls
AWM Honours & Awards
AWM Collection Records: H19192, P06234.002
Colonel J.E. Lee, 'Duntroon: The Royal Military College of Australia 1911-1946', 1952
NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920)