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Edgar Clapham

Male 1894 - 1918  (24 years)


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  • Name Edgar Clapham 
    Birth 1894 
    Gender Male 
    Death 5 November 1918  WWI, France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • Edgar 1894- 1918 (Bachelor, killed in action First WW)

      http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=536400
      Casualty Details
      Name: CLAPHAM, EDGAR
      Initials: E
      Nationality: United Kingdom
      Rank: Lieutenant
      Regiment/Service: Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)
      Unit Text: 6th Bn.
      Age: 23
      Date of Death: 05/11/1918
      Additional information: Son of John and Mabel C. Clapham, of 19, Broomfield Place, Keighley, Yorks.
      Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
      Grave/Memorial Reference: III. E. 3.
      Cemetery: AWOINGT BRITISH CEMETERY

      Cemetery Details
      Cemetery: AWOINGT BRITISH CEMETERY
      Country: France
      Locality: Nord
      Location Information: Awoingt is a village some 3 kilometres east-south-east of Cambrai and a little south of the main straight road, the N43, from Cambrai to Le Cateau. Travel along the N43 to the roundabout at the junction of this road and the D157. At this junction is the first sign for the Cemetery. Turn right along the D157 and travel approximately 300 metres then turn left along a narrow road. The Cemetery lies 125 metres along this road on the left.
      Historical Information: Awoingt British Cemetery was begun in the latter half of October 1918 and used until the middle of December; the village had been captured on 9/10 October. By 28 October, the 38th, 45th and 59th Casualty Clearing Stations were posted in the neighbourhood, and the great majority of the burials were made from those hospitals, but 16 graves in Plot III, Row H, and Plot V, were brought in after the Armistice from the country immediately surrounding the village. Awoingt British Cemetery contains 653 Commonwealth burials and commemorations of the First World War, including a special memorial to one casualty whose grave in the cemetery cannot now be found. The cemetery also contains 63 war graves of other nationalities, most of them German.
      No. of Identified Casualties: 714
    Person ID I8253  Houliston Family Tree
    Last Modified 22 February 2007 

    Father John Clapham,   b. 1867, Keighley, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1926 (Age 59 years) 
    Mother Mabel Caroline Milnes,   b. 1869   d. 1937 (Age 68 years) 
    Marriage 14 January 1892 
    Notes 
    • John Clapham and Mabel Milnes - 14 January, 1892
    Family ID F78  Family Group Sheet  |  Family Chart



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