Name
Arthur C Vincent Clutterbuck
1856
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
31/10/1916
40
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant Colonel
Essex Regiment
1st Bn., attached 3rd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
FELIXSTOWE NEW CEMETERY
J. 15.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
FIDUS ET AUDAX
UK & Other Memorials
Hinxworth Village Memorial, Repton School War Memorial, Derbyshire
Pre War
Arthur Vincent Clutterbuck was born in Englefield, Berkshire in 1876, the son of Reverend Arthur Clutterbuck and his wife Gertrude and one of seven children.
On the 1881 Census the family were living at The Rectory, Englefield, Berks where his father was the officiating minister of the parish. By 1891 they had moved to Hinxworth, Hertfordshire where his father was the Rector, however, Arthur was then a 15 year old boarder at Repton, Derbyshire and was in the sanatorium of Repton School.
He joined the army and In October 1902 was listed as a Captain in the West India Regiment, and later in 1912 and 1914 as Captain with the Essex Regiment.
Wartime Service
Arthur embarked for service overseas on 2 September 1915 and had been promoted to Major and later Lieutenant Colonel. He served in Gallipoli and France.
He died on 31 October 1916 whilst stationed at Felixstowe, Suffolk with the 3rd Battalion, Essex Regiment. The Register of Soldier's Effects gives his cause of death as suicide.
Additional Information
Some records and reports have his Rank as Major, The rank shown here is taken from the CWGC Database
His mother received a war gratuity of £75. She was granted probate of his estate in London on 14 March with effects of £493 11s 11d.
Lieut. Col. C H Clutterbuck, I.A. St Giles, Harpenden, Herts., ordered his headstone inscription: "FIDUS ET AUDAX".
His father died in Hinxworth in 1907 and his mother later lived at St Giles, Harpenden, Herts.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Adrian Dunne
