Name
George Clayden
1889
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
23/03/1918
28
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Driver
234467
Royal Field Artillery
376th Bty. 198th Bde.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
POZIERES MEMORIAL
Panel 7 to 10.
France
Headstone Inscription
He has no Headstone. He is commemorated on the Pozieres Memorial to the missing in France.
UK & Other Memorials
Cheshunt Town Memorial, St Clemence Church Memorial, Turnford, Not on the Waltham Cross Memorials
Pre War
George Clayden was born in Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire, in 1889, son of George Clayden Snr. a Carman, later a Fire Wood Dealer and Isabella Clayden. One of ten children, although one died in infancy.
Baptised in the Parish Church, Waltham Cross, Herts on 21st July 1889.
1891 Census records George Jr. aged 1, living with his parents, and six siblings at, Baltic House, Waltham Cross, Herts.
1901 Census records George Jr. aged 11, living with his parents, brothers Henry (18), Thomas (7) and sister Emma (21), at 274 High Street, Cheshunt, Herts.
1911 Census George Jr. is working as a Garden Nurseryman, living with his parents, two sisters, two brothers, sister in-law Florence and nephew Henry (1) at, Mill Lane Farm, Cheshunt, Herts.
George married Ada Carter the daughter of Charles and Harriet Carter of Cheshunt, in 1915, they went on to have one daughter Georgina Ada Clayden born in 1918.
Wartime Service
George enlisted at Woolwich, London, joining the Royal Field Artillery (RFA) with the service number 234467. Seeing action on the Western Front, he was killed in action on 23rd March 1918, he has no known grave and is commemorated on the Poziers Memorial to the missing on the Somme, France.
Additional Information
Ada received a widow’s pension of 13/9 a week from 21st August 1918 and his effects of £4-1s-4d, Pay Owing and a War Gratuity of £3. Ada’s elder brother Driver 40203 William Charles Carter of the Royal Horse Artillery died on 6th December 1915, he is buried in the CWGC Basra War Cemetery, Iraq.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
