LOUIS GEORGE CLIFFORD

Field of Honour

Born: 23rd June 1889, Hereford, Herefordshire.

Died: 3rd April 1918; age: 28; died of Pulmonary Tuberculosis at 6 School Street, Ipswich.

Louis’ widow, Lucy M. Clifford, of 6, School Street, was present at the death.

Residence: 6, School Street, Ipswich.

Occupation: a Sackmaker’s Carman.

Louis first enlisted in the Royal Navy at Devonport on the 23rd June 1910; he signed up for 12 years. An Insurance Agent, height 5ft 11 1/2ins, fresh complexion, brown eyes & dark brown hair. Tattoo: 5 dots on the left forearm.

Service:
‘Vivid’ Stoker II class – 23rd June 1910 – 28th February 1911
‘Vivid’ Stoker II class – 2nd April 1911 – 8th June 1911 – Invalided – Phthisis.

Enlistment Details: Date: 9th April 1915; age: 25 years & 11 months. Height: 5ft 11 1/2ins. Tattoo – 5 dots on the left forearm.

Date of Entry Therein: 22nd July 1915.

Discharged: 10th March 1916.

Rank: Private; Service Number: 2268

Regiment: Royal Army Medical Corps, 2nd/1st East Anglian Field Ambulance.

Medals Awarded: Victory, British War & 1915 Star + the Silver War Badge.

Funeral service and burial held on the 6th April.

Grave Reference:
BA.IA.29.
Ipswich Old Cemetery,
Ipswich.

Relatives Notified & Address: Husband of Lucy Maude Clifford, of 6, School Street, Ipswich.

CENSUS

1891   Hereford, Herefordshire.

Louis was a year old and living with his widowed mother at the home of his widowed maternal grandmother.
Harriet Sayers (nee Stephens), 60, Provision Dealer, born Birmingham, Warwickshire.
Jane Clifford (nee Sayers), 34, born Ledbury, Herefordshire.
1 lodger.

1901   41, Mount Street, Aston, Birmingham, Warwickshire.

Louis was 11 years old and living with his maternal aunt & uncle, cousins & grandmother.
William Jenkins, 39, a Coachman, born Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire.
Olive Adeline Jenkins (nee Sayer), 30, born Newent, Gloucestershire.
Leonard Jenkins, 15, a Bicycle Rim Maker, born Birmingham.
Harriet Ann Jenkins, 7, born 7, born Birmingham.
William James Jenkins, 4, born Birmingham.
John Jenkins, 1, born Birmingham.
Harriet Sayers, 70.

1911   Navy Barracks, Keyham, Devonport.

Louis was 21 years old, a Stoker 2nd Class for the Royal Navy.

Louis’s father was George Clifford, born 1856, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire; died 1890, Hereford, Herefordshire. He was a Letter Carrier.

Louis’s mother, Jane Clifford, died in 1899, Birmingham, Warwickshire.

In 1913, in Ipswich, Louis married Lucy Maude Bore, born January 1890, Stoke by Nayland, Suffolk – daughter of John Bore, an agricultural labourer, and Emma Bore (nee Barford), of Tattingstone.

Lucy and Louis had three children:

Leslie George Arnold Clifford, born February 1913, Tattingstone, Suffolk.

Peter Sidney Frederick Clifford, born July 1915, Tattingstone.

Irene May Clifford, born April 1917, Ipswich.

Soldiers’ Effects to Lucy Maude Clifford – widow.