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Facts and Events
Death Certificate: New South Wales Government Registry of Births Deaths & Marriages
| Registration Number | Last Name | Given Name(s) | Father's Given Name(s) | Mother's Given Name(s) | District
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| 17327/1948 | CONN | CLARENCE CHANDOS | GEORGE KAYE | ISABELLA | WALLSEND
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Newcastle Morning Herald & Miners' Advocate, Saturday 17 July 1948, page 2
| CONN. - Passed away at Wallsend Hospital, Saturday, July 10. Clarence Conn (Anzac) , beloved son of Isabella and George, and brother of Olive and Robert Aged 55 years. At rest.
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (NSW : 1876 - 1954) , Monday 12 July 1948, page 2
| CONN. - The Relatives and Friends of Mrs. MARGARET CONN, Mr. and Mrs. G. R. McLAUGHLIN (of 161 Lawson-st., Hamilton), are kindly informed that the remains of their late Husband and father, CLARENCE CONN, were privately interred on Sunday, 11th July, at Sandgate Cemetery. THOMAS MOORE. Funeral Director.
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate , Saturday 27 March 1915,
page 6
| Mr, and Mrs, George Conn, of Hamilton, have received a letter from their son Clarence, who is with the expeditionary force in Egypt, and who tells of the severe training which the Australians have gone through since they went into camp under the shadow of the Pyramids, The letter is dated February 17, and in it is stated that the training of the troops was then considered practically complete. They had just finished four days' bivouac, and had a hard time of it. They were marched about eight miles from camp, which took about three hours. They then had dinner, and after that had to trench themselves for the night. Conn says, " he slept pretty well, but it is not too comfortable sleeping in a trench two feet wide and two feet deep." He then goes on to say that they then had to make an attack on a hill, and it took twenty-one hours to carry out the plan, during which time they had little to eat. They had a spell the next day, but at night they were marched eight miles along a strange road, and finished up with a bayonet charge at four o'clock in the morning. Then they were put to attack another hill, the evolution occupying sixteen hours. The next day they marched back to camp, and while the work they had gone through was what Conn calls "a bit solid," he stood it all right, and finished up fresh. The officers expressed themselves as being very satisfied with the work that the troops had done. The men were given a few days' holiday after their strenuous exercises, and Conn tells of the wonders of the pyramids, to inspect which he took the opportunity afforded by the spell.
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Newcastle Morning Herald & Miners' Advocate, Saturday 26 February 1916, page 5
| PRIVATE CONN. Mr. G. K. Conn, of Hamilton, has received a telegram from his son, Private C. C. Conn, from Fremantle, advising that he is well. Private Conn was one of the first to enlist from the Newcastle district and took part in the memorable landing on April 25. He was in the thick of the fighting for three days, when he was wounded, and taken to the hospital. Recovering, he returned to the trenches in June, but an injured hand going back on him, he was removed to the Heliopolis Hospital. He again returned to the fighting line in August, and afterwards went to Lemnos for a rest. He returned to the trenches for the fourth time in October, and remained there till laid low with enteric. He was sent to Malta, and after- wards invalided home. Private Conn had his 22nd birthday in the trenches, and it will be seen that he has had a full share of fighting.
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Newcastle Morning Herald & Miners' Advocate, Monday 20 March 1916, page 5
| HAMILTON. Private C. C. Conn, who recently returned from the front, after being away for eighteen months, and,was wounded at Gallipoli, was entertained at a welcome home at the residence of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. K. Conn, Denison street, Hamilton, and presented with a gold medal, commemorative of the landing on the Gallipoli Peninsula on April 25 th.
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Newcastle Morning Herald & Miners' Advocate, Friday 31 March 1916, page 4
| PRIVATE C. C. CONN. There was a pleasant function at New castle Tattersall's Club last night, Private C. C. Conn, a son of Mr. G. K. Conn, a member of the club, being entertained at a smoke social, as a welcome home after eighteen months on active service, and presented with a gold medal, bearing an appropriate inscription. Mr. R. Price, the president, occupied the chair, and there was a large attendance of members and friends. Mr. Price, in making the presentation, said the club members had much pleasure in recognising the patriotic action of Private Conn, who was one of the gallant fellows who took part in the landing on the Gallipoli Peninsula. Three days after the landing he was wounded, losing a finger. After being in hospital, he re- turned to the trenches, but he was attacked by enteric, and was eventually invalided home. He was keen on returning to the front, and had made up his mind to do so as soon as he was sufficiently recovered. He trusted that Private Conn would be long spared to wear the medal. Alderman Moroney, the Mayor of Newcastle. Mr. D. Mouat, Mr. J. L. Lawson, and Lieutenant Brown supported the president's remarks. Lieutenant Brown, in the course of his speech, said that as a member of the Second Battalion, his thoughts often reverted to those who had gone away with him. There was but the ghost of the battalion left now. He paid a high tribute to the soldierly qualities of Private Conn, and said his conduct had been exemplary. Private Corn briefly and appropriately responded, and remarked that Tattersall's Club had always been to the fore in patriotic movements. Mr. Conn, in responding, said he was proud of his son, and thanked the members of the club. An enjoyable musical programme was rendered, those who contributed being Messrs. V. Wattkins, S. Webb, J. M'Cann, A. Massie, A. Leslie, T. Doyle, A. Board, J. Callaghan, T. Doyle, and Hogan. Mr. S. Burke and Mr. G. Skelton were accompanists.
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