WOODSTOCK REMEMBERS

SERVICE RECORD

Names
Surname
KILBY
Forname(s)
Clifford George
Birthplace
Wootton
Family
Parents
George Henry, a shepherd and Sarah Ellen, a gloverness, of Old Woodstock (1901 Census)
Siblings
Edward, Bertha, Ellen and Hilda
Address(es)
Clifford lived with the family in Old Woodstock (1911 Census) 9 Broad St., Griffithstown, Nr. Newport, Mon. with his brother Edward in 1913. Edward worked on GWR at Pontypool Road Station.
Occupation
Clifford was an assistant butcher (1911 Census)
A Mason's labourer in Griffithstown
Service

Rank: Able Seaman

Number: Wales Z/382

Regiment: Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Howe Battalion R.N.Div

Death
Clifford enlisted 19th February 1915 and travelled to France on 1st August 1915. He was invalided with dysentery and then pyrexia: returned to Howe 24th January 1917. Missing believed killed in action near Miramont 17th February 1917. Killed or died as a direct result of enemy action 17th February 1917, aged 24
Burial
Commonwealth War Grave/Memorial Thiepval Memorial Pier and F.1.A Total identified casualties 72318

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Researched by: Alice Hipkiss
http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Oxfordshire/Woodstock.html
Ancestry, 'Photos credit of CWGC'. Commonwealth War Grave Commission, Local collection, Woodstock (Parish magazine) Oxfordshire County Museum, Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum, Woodstock,
Local Historian Patricia Crutch.