BORN HULL 06/04/1897. SON OF WILLIAM & ELIZA ANN BRAITHWAITE, 10 DOROTHY AVENUE, CORNWALL STREET, HULL AND 9 PRINCESS MAY AVENUE, CLEVELAND STREET, HULL. CLARENCE SERVED IN THE ROYAL NAVY AND WAS KILLED ON 26/11/ 1914, WHEN HMS “BULWARK” EXPLODED IN THE RIVER MEDWAY, KENT. HIS PATRIOTIC FAMILY OF SEVEN BROTHERS ALL SERVED IN THE WAR. SIX OF THEM SAW ACTION. ONE WAS A CORPORAL, THREE WERE PRIVATES, TWO WERE NAVAL SIGNALMEN AND THE OTHER A CADET. HIS BROTHER ERNEST BRAITHWAITE, COLDSTREAM GUARDS, WAS KILLED 27/11/1917, AGED 22. HDM 07/05/1919.
First name:
CLARENCE
Regiment:
Military Number:
22207
Rank:
Able Seaman
Date Died
26/11/1914
Place died:
Portsmouth Naval Memorial, Hampshire, UK
Age:
18
10 DOROTHY AVENUE, CORNWALL STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Place Buried
