CLIFFORD Albert Henry

Albert Clifford was born in 1885, the son of George and Ellen Clifford (nee Weaver) who had married in 1880.  In 1891 the couple lived in Hallow with their three daughters and two sons, one being Albert aged 6.  George’s death aged 33 is recorded in the December quarter 1892 under the Martley registration district and at some point after this Ellen moves her family to 12 Laslett Street, Worcester where she resides as a widow on the 1901 census with Arthur, who is employed as a plumbers apprentice, his two brothers, his younger sister and a boarder by the name of Thomas Bennett. T his arrangement led to remarriage for Ellen as in 1909 she married Thomas Bennett in Worcester.  By the time of the 1911 census Arthur had left home and was living as a boarder with the Crosby family in Coventry where he worked as an iron moulder.  Love must have blossomed between Arthur and the younger daughter as in early 1915 Arthur married Margaret Crosby in Coventry.  By August 1915 Arthur had enlisted as a Private in the Royal Berkshire Regiment and he was sent to France on 7th August.  He was promoted to Acting Corporal but his time in France was short – just over a month after his arrival he was killed in action.  Sadly for his mother Ellen, his brother Walter was killed in action in France 11 months later.

Albert Clifford has no known grave, the photograph available shows his name on Loos Memorial.