F. V. Clement (Fredrick Victor Clement or Frederick Victor Clement) (Clement, Fredrick Victor or Clement, Frederick Victor) Service no 3538 Private, London Regiment, 1st/24th Battalion Died age 19 on 11 June 1916 Son of Walter George and Harriett Clement, of 38 Burgoyne Road, Stockwell Remembered at Bruay Communal Cemetery Extension, France and at Stockwell War Memorial, London SW9 Information from the 1911 census In 1911 Fredrick/Frederick Victor Clement was a 14-year-old schoolboy boarding at 60 Burgoyne Road (off Combermere Road), London SW9. He, his mother Harriett Clement, 58, a widowed charwoman from Clapham, and brother Walter George Clement, 36, a chair caner, also from Clapham, lived with the Faux family: Frank Mark Faux, 34, a brewer's drayman, Ada Ethel Faux, 30, and their sons Frank William Faux, 5, and Leonard Henry Faux, 2. The 1901 census shows that Walter George was "part blind from birth" and was working as a tea agent. Chair caning, his occupation in 1911, was a popular job for the blind. |
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Fredrick Victor Clement |