BORN GRIMSBY, 1890. SON OF ALICE MARY CLAYTON, OF GRIMSBY. ELDEST OF THREE SONS. HE ENLISTED AT HULL. HUSBAND OF VIOLET MAY, AT 38, STANIFORTH PLACE, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). SERVED WITH THE 2ND HULL PALS. LEFT CHILDREN, VIOLET, ELLEN & JOHN. DIED OF INFLURENZA, THREE DAYS AFTER WAR ENDED.
Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE WILLIAM (AKA CHARLES FREDERICK) CLAYTON 11/670. Born In Grimsby, but resident in Hull when war broke out, Charles enlisted at City Hall in the second week of September 1914 joining the 11th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, ‘The Tradesmen’, 2nd Hull Pals. One of the Originals he fought in Egypt, on the Somme, at Oppy Wood and Armentieres stalling the Spring Offensive and forcing the Germans into retreat. He’d been there from the very start and lived to see the end. Alas, Spanish Flu took him on 14th November 1918, three days after the Armistice. Charles is buried in Techlinthun British Cemetery.
Clayton, William
First name:
WILLIAM
Military Number:
11/670
Rank:
Private
Date Died
14/11/1918
Place died:
Terlincthun British Cemetery, Wimille, Pas de Calais, France
Age:
28
38, STANIFORTH PLACE, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
