Name
Clifford Roy Tuffield
Conflict
Second World War
Date of Death / Age
08/12/1944
28
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
14558357
Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry
7th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Forli War Cemetery
IV, D, 4.
Italy
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin Town Memorial, St. Mark’s Church Memorial, Hitchin, Hitchin Roll of Honour 1939 – 1945 (Book) St Mary’s Church, Hitchin
Biography
He was born in Hertfordshire and was an active member of Hitchin Boy's Club before joining up and had worked for Ewarts Geysers of Letchworth. At the time he enlisted he was resident in Hertfordshire and was posted to the 7th Battalion of the Regiment and his Service Number was 14558357. He was first reported missing and later as having been killed in Italy.
The 7th Ox & Bucks were part of the 168th (London) Infantry Brigade and had been much reduced by casualties. On the 9th December 1944 the German 90th Panzer Grenadier Mobile Division counter attacked the British Vth Corps at Faenza about five miles northwest of Forli. The Germans suffered severely but delayed the British advance.
He is buried in Plot 4, Row D, Grave 4 in Forli War Cemetery which is approximately 20 miles south-south-west of Ravenna in Northern Italy.
He was the second of five serving sons of Mr and Mrs A. A Tuffield of 11, Redhill Rd, Hitchin. He was married to Mrs Eunice Tuffield of Shoeburyness, and he had a son, Peter, who never saw his father as Clifford sailed for Italy on the day that Peter was born.
Acknowledgments
David C Baines – ‘Hitchin’s Century of Sacrifice’, Information :- Mr J. Tuffield - his brother, ‘Orders of Battle 1939-45’ by H.F. Joslen, ‘The Battle for Italy’ by W.G.F. Jackson, Herts Pictorial dated 6th Feb 1945
