PRIVATE Clifford Dent was a stretcher bearer with the 3rd Australian division at the Somme when he was decorated with the Military Cross.
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Official war records dated August 31, 1918, state that he worked “incessantly” for 24 hours and set a “splendid example” to the troops.
Dent worked under constant machine gun fire and no doubt put his own life at risk in order to help his fellow countrymen.
Dent’s picture is one of nearly 1000 Faces of Anzacs featured in a national online commemoration by Fairfax Media to mark the centenary of the Gallipoli landing in World War I.
The Faces of Anzacs tribute wall contains profiles contributed by hundreds of readers around the country and internationally and compiled by Fairfax’s regional, community and agricultural mastheads.
The wall, searchable by name and location, honours Diggers who served in the Great War; those who returned and those who made the ultimate sacrifice.
