Frederick Cecil Clow
He was an errand lad in 1911.
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Frederick Cecil Clow was born in 1897 at Queensbury, Yorkshire he was the son of Fred a railway goods guard (b.Sutterton Lincolnshire 1865) and Jemima (née Hall b.1864 also at Sutterton) Clow.
They were married in Married in 1886 in the Boston Registration District, they had five children. George's siblings were Daisy 1892 b.Bradford, Elsie b.1895 Halifax, Fred Cecil b.1897 Queensbury Yorkshire (killed in action 22/12/1914) and Gladys b.1890 Nottingham. In 1901 the family lived at 6 Blake Street and in 1911 at 10 Grimsby Terrace Watkin Street (both St Ann’s Nottingham). Fred (senior) was a goods guard for Great Northern Railway.
In the 1911 census Fred 46 yrs is a railway goods guard, he is living with his wife Jemima 47 yrs and their 5 children including George 21 yrs who was serving inIndiawith the Army, Georges entry is struck out presumably by the enumerator
In 1901 they family lived at 6 Blake Street and in 1911 at 10 Grimsby Terrace Watkin Street (both St Ann’s Nottingham). Fred (senior) was a goods guard for Great Northern Railway.
Frederick Cecil Clow enlisted in Nottingham (he was under age born 1897) and landed in France on 4th November 1914. He was killed in action on 22nd Decemeber 1914, having no known grave his name is commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial Panel 26 & 27
In Memoriam published 22nd December 1915 in the Nottingham Evening Post:
“CLOW. – In loving memory of our dear son, Cecil Clow, aged 17 years, who was shot by a sniper near Neuve Chappelle, December 22nd, 1914.”
In Memoriam courtesy of Jim Grundy and his facebook pages Small Town Great War Hucknall 1914-1918 :-
His brother George Clow enlisted in Nottingham on 11th December 1906. He served in India with 4th and 3rd Battalions before joining 9th Battalion King’s Royal Rifle Corps. Landing in France in November 1914, he was wounded in action and returned to England twice - on 5th March 1915 (shrapnel head wound) and again on 3rd February 1916. He returned to the front on 3rd May 1916 and was promoted to Lance Corporal on 5th July 1916.
Thiepval Memorial Pier & Face 13A, 13B
Photo published 22nd December 1915 in the Nottingham Evening Post and courtesy of Jim Grundy and his facebook pages Small Town Great War Hucknall 1914-1918
10 Grimsby Terrace Nottingham home of Frederick Cecil Clow. Photo by Peter Gillings August 2017