Name
Barnard Aubrey Clapham
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
27/03/1917
38
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant
Essex Regiment
4th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
GAZA WAR CEMETERY
XXVI. C. 13.
Israel and Palestine (including Gaza)
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath
Pre War
Born on 16 Dec 1878 in Buckhurst Hill, Essex son of Alfred Henry and Elizabeth (Barnard) Clapham of Woodford Bridge, Essex. Educated at Haileybury College 1892-97 and Worcester College, Oxford and became a solicitor. He was unmarried.
Wartime Service
Obtained his commission on 29 Oct 1914 and served with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force from Mar 1916. He died in a Field Ambulance at Gaza of wounds received the previous day in action at the Battle of Gaza.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour
