CLASPER Joseph

  • First Name(s):
    Joseph 
  • Surname:
    CLASPER
  • Service Number:
    25906
  • Rank:

    Private

  • Conflict:
    WW1
  • Service:
    Army
  • Army Sector:
    Infantry
  • Regiment:
    Grenadier Guards
  • Battalion:
    1st Battalion
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    5th April 1918
  • Age At Death:
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Commemorated on Arras Memorial, France, Bay 1.
  • Place of Birth:
    Unknown
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:
    Unknown
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CLASPER Joseph Is Named On These Memorials

Stourbridge War Memorial

Further Information About CLASPER Joseph

Appears in the Worcester/Worcestershire Roll of Honour Book for army casualties located in Worcester Cathedral.

Also appears on Stourbridge St Thomas’s Church.

Joseph Clasper lived at 21 Enville Street, Stourbridge, and was the third son of Richard and Sophia Clasper to die in the Great War.  He had been an office boy for the County Express for a year and then worked at Weaver’s Garage.  He was 6′ 2″ and enlisted in the Grenadier Guards in 1914.  He joined the 1st Battalion which went to France in December 1914.  Over the next three years he was wounded three times, once so seriously that he convalesced in Britain for 9 months.  In May 1918 the Guards Division was involved in halting the German offensive in Artois.  It was a costly period and Guardsman Joseph Clasper was killed during an artillery barrage.  He was 20 years of age.

Joseph Clasper has no known grave, the photograph available shows his name on Arras Memorial.

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Credits: Researched by The Black Country Society. Cathedral Roll of honour books researched by Sandra Taylor.