"Clarrie" Clarence LYNCH
Born 1891 in Creswick, Victoria, Australia [54]
Son of John Matthew LYNCH and Christina DIAMOND [15] [54]
Shifted to Western Australia with his parents in the early 1900s [P39]
Farmer with his father of Dangan Cutting Farm in Kellerberin in 1912 and 1913 [50]
The farm was 999 acres in size and 17 miles north of Kellberrin, comprising Avon Locations 5640, 5641 and 5642 [81: 19-Jun-1927]
927 of the farm's 999 acres was first-class Salmon and York Gum country with red and grey loamy and sandy soil [81]
About 15 acres was second-glass White Gum country of grey sandy soil and the balance was third-class scrub plain [81]
Avon Locations 5640 and 5642 belonged to his father while 5641 was in the name of his brother Thomas Michael LYNCH [81]
Farmer in Trayning, Western Australia in 1915 [18]
Enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force (A.I.F.) on 10 May 1915 at Blackboy Hill in the Perth hills [30: item 8207380
At enlistment he was 5 feet 8½ inches tall, weighed 151 pounds and had grey eyes, black hair and a medium dark complexion [30]
After training at Blackboy Hill he was appointed to the 8th Reinforcements of the 10th Light Horse Regiment on 1 June 1915 [30]
Embarked from Fremantle, Western Australia for active service abroad on the H.M.A.T. A68 Anchises on 2 September 1915 [18]
Private 1180 in the Australian Imperial Force's 10th Light Horse Regiment in Gallipoli and Egypt during the First World War [30]
Discharged from the A.I.F. on 4 May 1919; received the 1914-15 Star, British War Medal and the Victory Medal [30]
Married Hilda Mary BURROWS in the Perth suburb of Maylands in 1919 [15]
After the war farmed Pine Hill Farm in South Trayning before shifting to Arrino and then Carnamah [P39] [50]
Labourer in Carnamah [6], and also worked locally as a Shearer and on the wheat bins [P7]
Resided in a house constructed of timber and iron at 26 Robertson Street in the Carnamah townsite [P39]
Committee Member of the Carnamah sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers League in 1928 [9: 23-Mar-1928]
Clerk of Scales at the Carnamah Race Club's Annual Race Meetings from 1928 to 1932 [4: 31-Mar-1928, 21-Dec-1929, 12-Mar-1932]
Attended the local farewell for Jack and Annie LYNCH at the home of Mr and Mrs R. W. CLARK on 6 April 1929 [4: 13-Apr-1929]
Attended the funeral of "Father of Carnamah" Donald MACPHERSON at the Winchester Cemetery on 14 August 1931 [4: 22-Aug-1931]
Committee Member of the Carnamah Athletic Club and promoter of their first boxing match in 1932 [4: 6-Feb-1932]
He was one of 77 ex-servicemen who attended the Sailors & Soldiers Reunion Dinner in Carnamah on 22 October 1932 [86: 29-Oct-1932]
In December 1932 he was working in Carnamah as a Wheat Lumper [5: 23-Dec-1932]
Played in a cricket match between the "Lumpers" and the Carnamah Cricket Club on Sunday 11 December 1932 [5: 23-Dec-1932]
Played for the Carnamah Hotel's team "Gentleman" against the "Ruffs" team at cricket in Carnamah on 5 March 1933 [5: 10-Mar-1933]
Competitor in John A. KENNY's Billiard Tournament conducted within Mackie's Buildings in Carnamah in 1933 [5: 26-May-1933]
In early October 1933 his dog died after an unknown person illegally poisoned dogs around Carnamah [5: 13-Oct-1933]
Member of the Carnamah Cricket Club in 1933-34, 1934-35 and 1935-36 [4: 9-Dec-1933, 29-Dec-1934, 11-Oct-1935]
Committee Member of the Carnamah sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers League in 1934 and 1936 [5: 16-Mar-1934, 20-Mar-1936]
Attended the Annual R.S.L. General Meeting and Smoke Social in Carnamah on Thursday 8 March 1934 [5: 16-Mar-1934]
Judge of the Perenjori Agricultural Society's Boxing Tournament in Perenjori on Saturday 10 March 1934 [5: 16-Mar-1934]
Played for the losing married in the Married verses Single men's cricket match in Carnamah on Sunday 3 February 1935 [5: 8-Feb-1935]
In March 1935 himself and "Jack" John K. DIGBY, also of Carnamah, were operating a gold mine at Field's Find [5: 29-Mar-1935]
Attended the Fourth Annual North Midlands R.S.L. Reunion Dinner held in Three Springs on Saturday 19 October 1935 [5: 25-Oct-1935]
Following the creation of two teams within the Carnamah Cricket Club he played for "Carnamah Blues" in 1935-36 [5: 11-Oct-1935]
Member of John BOWMAN's XI who played against the Carnamah Cricket Club at the opening of the 1935-36 season [5: 25-Oct-1935]
Attended the R.S.L. Social to farewell "Chitter" George F. BROWN at the Carnamah Hostel on Friday 24 April 1936 [5: 1-May-1936]
Member of the Carnamah Ratepayers & Citizens Association in 1936 [5: 12-Jun-1936]
Member of the Carnamah Athletic Club in 1936 [5: 19-Jun-1936]
With ticket A006 he won the raffle at the Coronation Ball at the Carnamah Hall on Wednesday evening 12 May 1937 [5: 14-May-1937]
The ball and its festivities celebrated the coronation of King George VI of the United Kingdom and the British Commonwealth [5]
Member of the Carnamah Boxing Tournament Committee in 1937 - Referee of the Tournament on 28 August 1937 [5: 6-Aug-1937]
Casket carrier at the funeral of Carnamah doctor Cecil Phillip ROSENTHAL on 8 April 1939 at the Winchester Cemetery [0]
Member of Carnamah's Miniature Rifle Club in 1941 and 1944 [0: images 02933 & 04287]
Resided in Carnamah until at least 1953 [19]
Later resided in the Perth suburb of Bayswater [2]
Father of Jean, William, Kenneth, Terrence, Patricia, Peter and Pamela [P39]
Died 10 September 1958; buried at Karrakatta Cemetery in Perth, Western Australia (Roman Catholic, ZE, 406) [2]
| Reference: Carnamah Historical Society & Museum and North Midlands Project, 'Clarence Lynch' in Biographical Dictionary of Coorow, Carnamah and Three Springs, retrieved 19 December 2024 from www.carnamah.com.au/bio/clarence-lynch [reference list] |
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