Harry Leslie Cliff
He was a law clerk in 1911.
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Harry Leslie Cliff was born in 1895 the son of John a lace warehouse man and his first wife Louisa Cliff( née Harmston).
His father was born in 1865 at Nottingham and his mother in 1867 at Canwick, Lincolnshire. Married on 27th December 1892 at St Andrews Church, Nottingham, they lived at 35 Marple Street Nottingham.
Harry’s mother died in 1904 and his father married Mary Emma Foster born 1883 at Nottingham, in 1909 at Nottingham, their son Charles Cecil Cliff was born in 1910.
In 1911 census the family lived at 118 Robin Hood Chase Nottingham. John Cliff 46 yrs is a lace warehouse man, he is living with his second wife Mary Emma Cliff 28 yrs and his children, Harry Leslie 16 yrs a law clerk and Charles Cecil Cliff 1 year old.
Harry Leslie Cliff, enlisted at Nottingham he served with the 12th battalion Northumberland Fusiliers, and landed in France on 9th September 1915. He is buried in Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension, Nord, France Grave Reference: II C 97
Death notice published 2nd February 1916 in the Nottingham Evening Post :
“CLIFF. – Died of wounds on January 30th, Lance-Corpl. Leslie Cliff, 12th Northumberland Fusiliers, son of the late John Cliff, and nephew of Mrs. Ronald, 38, Derby-grove, in his 21st year.”
Notice courtesy of Jim Grundy and his facebook pages Small Town Great War Hucknall 1914-1918.
Photo of Harry Leslie Cliff
Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension