219228 Pte. Frank Malcolm Louis Clement British Army 1/23rd Btn. London Regiment from:26 Barnsbury Grove, Highbury, North London (d.16th Sep 1916) Frank Clement, son of Louis and Mary Ann Clement, was born in February 1893. He was aged 22 years and 3 months on 27th May 1915 when he enlisted into the Queen Victoria Rifles at Oxford Street. Louis Clement is my maternal great-grandfather.
On 16th September 1916 Frank Malcolm Louis Clement was killed aged 23. Family story has it that he was identified from the inscription on a watch he was given on his 21st birthday in 1914. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France. His father Louis Clement was living at 125 Sheringham Avenue, Manor Park, Essex. His next of kin were his sister Miss W Clements who was living at his home address, and Annie Bangay of 10 Ashurst Street, Park Road, Battersea. She may have been his girlfriend/fiance but I don't know this for sure.
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