CLIFFORD FREDERICK LOFTS
Born: 14th November 1889, Ipswich.
Baptised on the 26th January 1890, at All Saints’ Church, Ipswich – family home at 4, Riversdale Terrace, Elliott Street, Ipswich.
Died: 28th November 1918; age 29; died of Bronchial Pneumonia following Influenza at No. 39 Casualty Clearing Station. Served 3 years & 12 days.
Residence: 26, Upland Road, Ipswich.
Occupation: Lithographic Artist and Designer.
Enlistment Details: Location: Ipswich; date: 17th November 1915; age: 26 years; religion: CofE. Next of Kin: wife – Mrs Eva Lofts. Signed up for the Duration of the War. Height: 5ft 6 ins.
Date of Entry Therein: 12th October 1917.
Sickness – admitted to Saxmundham Hospital – 24th July 1916 – 26th July 1916 – Influenza.
Embarked: Folkstone – 12th October 1917.
Disembarked: Boulogne – 12th October 1917.
Rank: Sapper; Service Number: 523987
Regiment: Royal Engineers, 6th Field Survey Coy.
Formerly 265429, Suffolk Regiment.
Grave Reference:
Plot 9, Row D, Grave 9.
Montecchio Precalcino Communal Cemetery Extension,
Italy.
Relatives Notified & Address: Eldest son of Frederick & Elizabeth Lofts of Ipswich.
Brother to HAROLD PERCY LOFTS.
CENSUS
1891 6, Elliott Street, Ipswich.
Clifford was a year old and living with his parents.
Frederick Lofts, 27, a Postal Telegraph Linesman, born Cambridge, Cambridgeshire.
Elizabeth Agnes Lofts (nee Godbold), 35, born Wickham Market, Suffolk.
1901 28, Samuel Road, Ipswich.
Clifford was 11 years old and living with his parents & brother.
Frederick, 38, a Post Office Telegraph Linesman.
Elizabeth, 54.
Harold Percy Lofts, 4, born Ipswich.
1911 26, Upland Road, Ipswich.
Clifford was 21 years old, a Lithographic Artist and Designer. He was living with his parents & brother.
Frederick, 48, a Telegraph Linesman – G.P.O. Telegraph Engineers & Maintenance.
Harold, 14, an Apprentice Lithographic Artist & Designer.
In December 1900, Clifford Lofts gave 1s. to the Poor Children’s Christmas Dinner. The dinner was to be held in the Public Hall and Corn Exchange at one o’clock on Christmas Day.
Clifford was educated at Ipswich Grammar School for Boys.
In July 1905, Clifford achieved a successful second-class result of the Evening Examinations, held by the Board of Education, in Freehand Drawing in Outline.
In July 1907, Clifford, a student at the Ipswich School of Art, achieved a successful second-class result in Painting Ornament.
On the 26th September 1917, at St. John the Baptist Church, Saxmundham, Suffolk, Clifford married Eva Dennant, born October 1891, Dovercourt, Essex – daughter of William Dennant, an engine fitter and Laura Dennant (nee Offord).
Soldiers’ Effects to Eva Lofts – widow.
Probate to Thomas David Cook – a Friendly Society Secretary & Edwin Abbott- a Sugar Boiler.
Clifford is also remembered on the war memorial at St. John the Baptist Church, Ipswich, and at Northgate High School. Formerly Ipswich Grammar School for Boys.
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