Name
Clement Percy Joscelyne
1885
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
10/10/1917
32
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
Suffolk Regiment
3rd Bn. attd. 11th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
DOZINGHEM MILITARY CEMETERY
XII. J. 18.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
SPEED, FIGHT ON, FARE EVER THERE AS HERE
UK & Other Memorials
Bishop's Stortford Town Memorial, United Reformed Church War Memorial, Water Lane, Bishop's Stortford, Ruislip War Memorial, London
Pre War
Clement Percy Joscelyne was born in Bishop's Stortford in 1885 to Clement and Fanny Joscelyne.
On the 1901 Census he was living with his family in Market Square, Bishop's Stortford, where his father had set up a furnishing business. When living in the town Clement was a pupil at Bishop’s Stortford College and he later worked to form a Boys’ Club as well as working in his father’s business . On the 1911 Census, he was a visitor at the home of Langston and Esme Ware at 2 Well Walk, Hampstead when he was employed in house decoration and furnishing. He married Rosamund Edith Baxter on 21 May 1911 at Christchurch, Hampstead.
On the 1913 Electoral Register they were living at The Old House, Bury Street, Ruislip, Uxbridge. They had two children, Richard Clement b. 1912 and Patricia Mary b. 1914, then the family emigrated to Argentina, where his employer, Waring and Gillow, sent him to set up a branch of the business. (Address given on probate as Casella de Correo, 1398 Buenos Aries.) On 7 September 1916 he arrived in Liverpool from La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina with his wife and two children on the Desna,(Royal Mail Steam Packet Company ship) to enlist. Their third child Michael Newsome was born six weeks before his death.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in 1916 after returning from Argentina and sailed for France in July 1917. He died on 10 October the same year, only a day after first marching to the front near Passchendaele.
He was wounded while supervising the repair of roads leading to front line trenches and subsequently died of those wounds at the 47th Casualty Clearing Station which was stationed near Dozinghem, Belgium.
Additional Information
Probate granted in London on 18 April 1918 to his widow Rosamond Edith Joscelyne. Effects of £1621 14s 11d. His wife, Mrs R Joscelyne, The Old House, Ruislip, Middx. ordered his headstone inscription: "SPEED, FIGHT ON, FARE EVER THERE AS HERE". N.B. Image of Clement Joscelyne appears on Imperial War Museum Lives of the First World War website.
Also commemorated on the family grave in Bishops Stortford Old Cemetery family grave, where his inscription reads:
CLEMENT PERCY JOSCELYNE DIED FOR HIS COUNTRY DECEMBER 9TH(*1) 1917, AGED 32 YEARS.
*1 CWGC record his death as on the 10th.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
