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6104, Private, Clarence WILLIAMS
Aged 22


4th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment
(enlisted as No.4170, Suffolk Regiment)
Died of his Wounds on Monday 30th October 1916

Born in Newmarket in Q2-1894 [Newmarket 3b:514] to Edward and Katherine WILLIAMS (née TRUNDLEY).

1901 census...Clarence [6] was at Icewell Hill, Newmarket with his father Edward [40] a stableman born in Worcester, his mother Kate [38] born in Swavesey, Glamorgan, sister Gladys [2] born Newmarket, and brothers John [17] a jockey, born Kentford, Sydney [13] a stableman born Lambourne, Gordon [8] and Wilfred [6] both born in Newmarket.

1911 census...Clarence [16] an errand boy was at Wards Alley, Icewell Hill ,Newmarket with his parents, brothers Gordon and Wilfred and sister Gladys, and two new siblings, Maude [5] and Alex [4] both born in Newmarket. Three children had died.

He married Margaret (Daisy) Sohpie Emma DOE of 5 Bartons Place, Mill Hill in Newmarket in Q3-1916.


CWGC have his death as 30th October.
On the 24th October the 4th Suffolks had moved to Trones Wood, occupying four days later some poor front line trenches on newly won ground in front of Les Boeufs. For the next five days they made minor attacks but only meeting with limited success. These actions ended on November 1st and the battalion moved back to Flers. 34th and 2/2nd London Casualty Clearing Stations were established at the point known to the troops as Grove Town, where over 1300 casualties of the 1st Somme are buried.




Sadly the lettering is almost invisible to the naked eye at present on most headstones in this cemetery.


© Roy Beardsworth




Clarence is buried in Grove Town Cemetery, Meault, France- Ref:II.D.8
and also commemorated on the Roll of Honour in St Mary's Church, Newmarket
and his wife's grave in Newmarket Cemetery

click here to go to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website for full cemetery/memorial details


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