This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: divbooks Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.oceania.australia.vic.general/10944.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I see the family were still in England in 1911 Name: Claude Hamilton Mawby Age in 1911: 5 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1906 Relation to Head: Son Gender: Male Birth Place: Ketton, Rutland, England Civil parish: Market Deeping County/Island: Lincolnshire Country: England Street Address: Market Deeping Lincs Registration district: Bourne Registration District Number: 412 Sub-registration district: Deeping ED, institution, or vessel: 1 Piece: 19469 Household Members: Name Age Claude Septimus Mawby 38 Catherine Mawby 42 Claude Hamilton Mawby 5 May Towell 22 Claude appears first on the 1930 New South Wales Electoral Roll, then 1936 onwards in Queensland, a labourer at Alligator Creek. Claude's death was registered in Queensland, 1941 Name: Claude Hamilton Mawby Death Date: 17 Jun 1941 Death Place: Queensland Father's Name: Claude Septimus Mawby Mother's name: Katherine Ball Registration Year: 1941 Registration Place: Queensland Registration number: 000148 Page Number: 1482 WW2 Service Record Name MAWBY, CLAUDE HAMILTON Service Australian Army Service Number QX13288 Date of Birth 23 Nov 1905 Place of Birth KITTON, ENGLAND Date of Enlistment 19 Jul 1940 Locality on Enlistment MACKAY, QLD Place of Enlistment MACKAY, QLD Next of Kin MAWBY, FLORENCE Date of Death 17 Jun 1941 Rank Lance Corporal Posting on Death 2/31 AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY BATTALION WW2 Honours and Gallantry None for display Prisoner of War No Roll of Honour ROCKHAMPTON QLD Info below indicates he was killed in Syria Roll of Honour - Claude Hamilton Mawby Claude Hamilton Mawby Service number: QX13288 Rank: Lance Corporal Unit: 2/31st Battalion (Infantry) Service: Australian Army Conflict: 1939-1945 Date of death: 17 June 1941 Place of death: Syria Cause of death: Killed in action Source: AWM147 Roll of Honour cards, 1939-1945 War, 2nd AIF (Australian Imperial Force) and CMF (Citizen Military Force) If you Google 'National Archives of Australia' and click on 'Name Search', you can request a copy of his war record. The 'Find A Grave' website indicates he was buried in Beirut. Birth: unknown Death: Jun. 17, 1941 Inscription: Australian Infantry Note: QX13288 Burial: Beirut War Cemetery Beirut Bayrut, Lebanon Plot: 2. D. 5. Source: Created by: International Wargraves ... Record added: Nov 08, 2007 Find A Grave Memorial# 22730925 Cheers, Anne Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.