BORN HULL 1896. SON OF CHARLES EDWARD & ELIZABETH CLINTON, OF 15 ELLIS TERRACE, HOLDERNESS ROAD, HULL. A SOLDERER. HE LIVED AT 84 KENT STREET, HULL. HE MARRIED SARAH JANE HOWES IN MIDDLESBROUGH AND ENLISTED IN MIDDLESBROUGH. SERVED AS PRIVATE, 19825, 7TH GLOUCESTERSHIRE REGIMENT. HE SERVED IN THE MIDDLE EAST, AND DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 16/12/1916, AGED 19. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE BASRA MEMORIAL. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOW SARAH JANE.
BROTHER, PRIVATE, GEORGE WILLIAM CLINTON , 766, 1ST EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT HAD SERVED THROUGHOUT THE WAR AND DIED ON FLU, ON 12/12/1918, AGED 31. HE IS BURIED IN HULL. HE LEFT OTHER BROTHERS, CHARLES AND ARTHUR, AND SIX MARRIED SISTERS, SUSAN JORDAN, ALICE McCLOUD, ADA WILKINSON, ANNIE DENMAN, NELLIE, McGOWAN AND ROSE CLARK.
Clinton, David
First name:
DAVID
Military Number:
19825
Rank:
Private
Date Died
16/12/1916
Place died:
Basra War Memorial, Iraq
Age:
19
84 , KENT STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
