Name
Clive Thomas Grainger Tilbrook
7/11/1897
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
03/03/1916
18
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
R/7144
King's Royal Rifle Corps
8th Bn.
"A" Coy.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CABARET-ROUGE BRITISH CEMETERY, SOUCHEZ
XVII. L. 32.
France
Headstone Inscription
"FOR DUTY, HONOUR, LIBERTY"
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Waltham Cross Memorials
Pre War
Clive Thomas Grainger TILBROOK was born in Woolwich, Lon/Middx, on 7th November 1897, son of Thomas John Tilbrook a serving soldier in the Royal Army Medical Corps and Esther/Essie Christina Tilbrook (nee Grainger). One of three children.
He was Baptised on 2nd February 1898, at St George’s Garrison Church, Woolwich, Lon/Kent.
1901 Census records Clive aged 3, living with his parents, and 6 months old sister Eileen, at 27 Red Lion Lane, Plumstead, Lon/Kent.
1911 Census, Clive (13), is at school, living with his parents, sister Eileen (10), and brother Thomas (5), at 2 Birbeck Road, Ealing, Middx.
His parents later moved to 167 Crossbrook Street, Waltham Cross, Herts.
His mother Esther/Essie Tilbrook passed away in Q 2, 1915, aged 45.
Wartime Service
Clive enlisted in London, on 16th November 1914 for the duration of the war, posted to the 6th Battalion, kings Royal Rifle Corps with the service number R/7144, later transferred to the 8th Battalion.
On completion of his training Clive was sent to France, arriving on 12th September 1915. Seeing action on the Western Front, he was Killed in Action on 3rd March 1916, aged 18, he is buried in the Cabaret-Rouge British Cemetery, Souchez, Pas de Calais, France. Grave Reference. XVII. L. 32. At the time of his death he held the rank of Lance Corporal.
Additional Information
His effects of £6-12-05, pay owing and his war gratuity of £5, went to his father Captain Thomas John Tilbrook of the RAMC and Messer’s Hall & Co.
1921 Census records his widowed father Thomas, stationed at the Base Depot Medical Stores, at Makona Barbar, Mesopotamia.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
