Rank: Second Lieutenant.
Regiment: Coldstream Guards.
Age: 20 years old
Son of Isabel Clifton, of 10, Walpole St., Chelsea, London, and the late William Edward Clifton.
(CWGC)
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Extract from The Roll of Honour, A Biographical record of all members of His Majesty's Naval and Military Forces who have fallen in the War, by the Marquis de Ruvigny, Volume I., The Standard Art Book Company, Ltd, December, 1916:
CLIFTON, HAROLD NORTON, 2nd Lieutenant, 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards, yr. son of William Edward Clifton, of 7, East India Avenue, London, E.C., Architect and Surveyor, and 12, Cambridge Square, Hyde Park, London, W., Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects and of the Surveyors' Institution, by his wife, Isabel, daughter of the late James Nelson, of Carlisle: b. 32, Ashley Gardens, Westminster, 7 May, 1894; educated St. Peter's Court, Broadstairs, and Harrow; joined the Artists' Rifles in 1913, and went with the Corps to France in Oct. 1914, as a Corporal, obtaining a commission in the Coldstream Guards, 1 Jan. 1915. He was severely wounded at Cuinchy, near La Bassée, 25 Jan. 1915, and died of his wounds in a German field hospital, 1 Feb. following, and was buried at Billy Berclau, near La Bassée; unmarried. At Harrow, 2nd Lieutenant Clifton was in the Sixth Form, a school monitor, head of his house (Druries), a member of the football eleven, captain of the swimming and middle-weight boxer for the school for two years, competing in the Public Schools Competition at Aldershot. He was also a member of the Richmond Football Club.
Contributor: A Fifer in Exile (49902043)
Regiment: Coldstream Guards.
Age: 20 years old
Son of Isabel Clifton, of 10, Walpole St., Chelsea, London, and the late William Edward Clifton.
(CWGC)
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Extract from The Roll of Honour, A Biographical record of all members of His Majesty's Naval and Military Forces who have fallen in the War, by the Marquis de Ruvigny, Volume I., The Standard Art Book Company, Ltd, December, 1916:
CLIFTON, HAROLD NORTON, 2nd Lieutenant, 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards, yr. son of William Edward Clifton, of 7, East India Avenue, London, E.C., Architect and Surveyor, and 12, Cambridge Square, Hyde Park, London, W., Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects and of the Surveyors' Institution, by his wife, Isabel, daughter of the late James Nelson, of Carlisle: b. 32, Ashley Gardens, Westminster, 7 May, 1894; educated St. Peter's Court, Broadstairs, and Harrow; joined the Artists' Rifles in 1913, and went with the Corps to France in Oct. 1914, as a Corporal, obtaining a commission in the Coldstream Guards, 1 Jan. 1915. He was severely wounded at Cuinchy, near La Bassée, 25 Jan. 1915, and died of his wounds in a German field hospital, 1 Feb. following, and was buried at Billy Berclau, near La Bassée; unmarried. At Harrow, 2nd Lieutenant Clifton was in the Sixth Form, a school monitor, head of his house (Druries), a member of the football eleven, captain of the swimming and middle-weight boxer for the school for two years, competing in the Public Schools Competition at Aldershot. He was also a member of the Richmond Football Club.
Contributor: A Fifer in Exile (49902043)
Rank: Second Lieutenant.
Regiment: Coldstream Guards.
Age: 20 years old
Son of Isabel Clifton, of 10, Walpole St., Chelsea, London, and the late William Edward Clifton.
(CWGC)
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Extract from The Roll of Honour, A Biographical record of all members of His Majesty's Naval and Military Forces who have fallen in the War, by the Marquis de Ruvigny, Volume I., The Standard Art Book Company, Ltd, December, 1916:
CLIFTON, HAROLD NORTON, 2nd Lieutenant, 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards, yr. son of William Edward Clifton, of 7, East India Avenue, London, E.C., Architect and Surveyor, and 12, Cambridge Square, Hyde Park, London, W., Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects and of the Surveyors' Institution, by his wife, Isabel, daughter of the late James Nelson, of Carlisle: b. 32, Ashley Gardens, Westminster, 7 May, 1894; educated St. Peter's Court, Broadstairs, and Harrow; joined the Artists' Rifles in 1913, and went with the Corps to France in Oct. 1914, as a Corporal, obtaining a commission in the Coldstream Guards, 1 Jan. 1915. He was severely wounded at Cuinchy, near La Bassée, 25 Jan. 1915, and died of his wounds in a German field hospital, 1 Feb. following, and was buried at Billy Berclau, near La Bassée; unmarried. At Harrow, 2nd Lieutenant Clifton was in the Sixth Form, a school monitor, head of his house (Druries), a member of the football eleven, captain of the swimming and middle-weight boxer for the school for two years, competing in the Public Schools Competition at Aldershot. He was also a member of the Richmond Football Club.
Contributor: A Fifer in Exile (49902043)
Regiment: Coldstream Guards.
Age: 20 years old
Son of Isabel Clifton, of 10, Walpole St., Chelsea, London, and the late William Edward Clifton.
(CWGC)
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Extract from The Roll of Honour, A Biographical record of all members of His Majesty's Naval and Military Forces who have fallen in the War, by the Marquis de Ruvigny, Volume I., The Standard Art Book Company, Ltd, December, 1916:
CLIFTON, HAROLD NORTON, 2nd Lieutenant, 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards, yr. son of William Edward Clifton, of 7, East India Avenue, London, E.C., Architect and Surveyor, and 12, Cambridge Square, Hyde Park, London, W., Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects and of the Surveyors' Institution, by his wife, Isabel, daughter of the late James Nelson, of Carlisle: b. 32, Ashley Gardens, Westminster, 7 May, 1894; educated St. Peter's Court, Broadstairs, and Harrow; joined the Artists' Rifles in 1913, and went with the Corps to France in Oct. 1914, as a Corporal, obtaining a commission in the Coldstream Guards, 1 Jan. 1915. He was severely wounded at Cuinchy, near La Bassée, 25 Jan. 1915, and died of his wounds in a German field hospital, 1 Feb. following, and was buried at Billy Berclau, near La Bassée; unmarried. At Harrow, 2nd Lieutenant Clifton was in the Sixth Form, a school monitor, head of his house (Druries), a member of the football eleven, captain of the swimming and middle-weight boxer for the school for two years, competing in the Public Schools Competition at Aldershot. He was also a member of the Richmond Football Club.
Contributor: A Fifer in Exile (49902043)
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