Frederick Richard Clew (SN 4464) was born in Ballarat where he enlisted on July 9th 1915. The single, 23 year-old, bricklayer's labourer embarked from Melbourne on board the Themistocles in January 1916, bound for Suez. He was was transferred to the 58th Battalion in April with which he arrived in Marseilles towards the end of June. His time at the front was destined to be brief. Within a month of his arrival in France, he was wounded in action, suffering a gun shot wound to the face and arm. Evacuated to England, he spent the next four months in hospital after which he was returned to Australia. He boarded the Benalla in Plymouth in February 1917, disembarked in Melbourne eight weeks later, and was discharged on June 1st 1917.

It appears that within a few years of the end of the war, the family changed their surname to Clough, and Frederick re-enlisted under that name at the beginning of World War 2.

Lucas’s Staffs Appreciation of Brave Men, the original Avenue register, records his name as Fredk. R. Clew.