BORN HESSLE 1880. ENLISTED HULL. RESIDED BEVERLEY. SON OF GEORGE WILLIAM CLEMENTS (1850-1922) AND ALICE TINDALE (1857-1922). SON OF A TANNER’S LABOURER. ONE OF NINE CHILDREN. HE WORKED AS A SHIP YARD LABOURER AND WAS A MEMBER OF THE INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS, A FRIENDLY SOCIETY. HE LIVED IN BEVERLEY. MARRIED KATE STAVELEY (1886-1919), AT BEVERLEY IN 1910. HIS WIFE KATE, DAUGHTER WINIFRED AND SON JOHN, LIVED AT THIS ADDRESS (1911 CENSUS). A FORMER TERRITORIAL. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. ARRIVED IN FRANCE WITH THE 2ND YORKSHIRE HUSSARS, IN THE BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE. HE WAS KILLED AT YPRES, ON 30/10/1914, AGED 34. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE YPRES, MENIN GATE MEMORIAL TO THE MISSING. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOW KATE, WHO DIED IN 1919 AND THEN TO MRS ADA EDWARDS IN 1920. BOTH HIS PARENTS DIED IN 1922.
HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON THE ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS, WW1 MEMORIAL, AT BEVERLEY MEMORIAL HALL WHICH RECORDS 145 MEMBERS WHO DIED IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR.
