Name
Charles Clarkson
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
12/02/1917
37
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Captain
Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)
2nd/4th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
GEZAINCOURT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
II. F. 18.
France
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Knebworth memorials
Pre War
Son of James and Sarah Clarkson, of Halifax; husband of Emma Clarkson, of Redmire, Knebworth, Hertfordshire.
Wartime Service
Charles Clarkson saw no active service on the Western Front. He arrived in France with his Battalion on the 10th January 1917, serving as the Commander of “D”” Company. He had been sent on an instructional course with the V Army when he developed Generalised Septicaemia, which quickly led to his death. His name is not recorded on the Knebworth village war memorial.
Acknowledgments
Paul Johnson
