5962476, Sapper, Clifford Ernest POWTER
Aged 21


Royal Engineers
Died of Illness on Thursday 22nd February 1945

Born on 18th March 1923 [Newmarket Q2-1923 3b:767], the son of Eric and Nellie POWTER (née SIZER), His mother died in 1927 and his father married Lilian M COOPER in Newmarket in 1929.

Clifford married Dorothy Maud Irene BROOKS of Kempston, Bedfordshire in Q3-1943
He had been a carpenter with Messrs Holland's.

In the 1939 register, at Morton House, All Saints Road, Newmarket were his father Eric [1-2-1894] manager of coal department, and his mother Lilian [8-1-1899]. There are 4 closed records.


He had been engaged in mine clearances and contracted diphtheria which led to his death.




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Clifford is buried in Brugge General Cemetery, Belgium Ref- plot 63,row 5, grave 3


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