BORN HULL 1895. SCULCOATES. SON OF EDWIN SCULPHER (1859-& 1909) AND ADA CHAPMAN (1868-1931). HE HAD AN ELDER BROTHER, HENRY, AND YOUNGER SISTER, ADA. AN ERRAND BOY. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED AS PRIVATE, 11027, 10TH WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION, ON 18/11/1917, AGE 21. UNMARRIED. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS MOTHER, ADA TRAFFORD. HE IS BURIED AT CEMENT HOUSE CEMETERY, BELGIUM. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, “PEACE PERFECT PEACE”. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE EASINGTON WW1 MEMORIAL.
Private Clarence Edwin Sculpher, 11027, 10th (Service) Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales’s Own). He was killed in action on November 18, 1917, shortly after the second battle of Passchendaele. At first glance, it’s hard to see where Clarence’s link with Easington originates from. His birth was registered in the Sculcoates district of Hull and it was there he was listed as residing in 1911, when he worked as an Errand Boy in a “fruitshop”. Yet he was named on the original memorial in Easington Church. His gravestone is also confusing, being marked “G. E. Sculpher”, despite the official records citing his correct first name.
