Robert Percy Clews (1885 - 1962)

Born Mar 1885 in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England

Ancestors

Died Mar 1962 at about age 77 in York, England

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Biography

• 1915 Clerk, single^[1]
• 1916 m. Alice Roden at St Olaf's Church in Marygate, York^[1][2]

Military Service

• 1915 Enlisted in the Army for Short Service (duration of the war)^[1][3]
• July 1916 Acting Corporal
• Jan 1917 Reverted to private on tranfer
• Apr 1917 transferred to Royal Lancaster Regiment
• 4 May 1917 posted to India (Bombay, Bangalore)
• Dec 1918 Solonika, Greece
• May 1919 Constantinople, Turkey
• May 1922 Awarded British War Medal

Census

• 1911 Nottingham, Nottinghamshire: 25, Single, Traveller Ironmongery, in the household or Robert & ElizaClews^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Ancestry.com. British Army WWI Service Records, 1914-1920 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008.
2. ↑ Ancestry.com. England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc, 2010.
3. ↑ The National Archives of the UK. "British Army WWI Service Records, 1914-1920." Fold3.com 5 Nov 2015. Accessed 25 May 2019.
4. ↑ 1911 England Census: Class: RG14; Piece: 20593

• 1911 England Census: Ancestry.com. 1911 England Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2011
• Ancestry.com. England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007.