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CLARENCE NICHOLSON RAILTON
BORN DRIFFIELD 1896. SON OF JOHN EDWIN RAILTON (1859–1941) & CATHERINE (KATE) PETCH (1861-1926), OF 11, PARK ROW, PARK STREET, HULL AND 27, PARK STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE HAD TWO BROTHERS AND A SISTER.
BEFORE THE WAR HE WAS A BUILDING JOINER, HELPING HIS FATHER.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. VOLUNTEERED FOR SERVICE AGED 17 AND POSTED TO FRANCE ON 20 APRIL 1915. HE SERVED WITH THE (1st/3rd North Midland Field Ambulance) ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS. HAD BEEN IN FRANCE FOR 16 MONTHS BEFORE HE WAS WOUNDED. HE DIED OF GUNSHOT WOUNDS, ON 17/09/1916, AGED 20. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS FATHER, JOHN EDWIN.
HE IS LISTED ON HULL TECHNICAL COLLEGE ROLL OF HONOUR & THE RAMC MEMORIAL WENLOCK BARRACKS.
HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, WITH HIS PHOTO ON 25TH SEPTEMBER 1916.*
HE IS BURIED AT HEILLY STATION CEMETERY, MERICOURT-L'ABBE, SOMME, FRANCE.
HE IS ALSO COMMEMORATED ON THE FAMILY GRAVE AT HULL WESTERN CEMETERY.
HIS OLDER BROTHER, FRED, WAS SERGEANT, 10/491, SERVING WITH THE HULL COMMERCIALS. HIS OTHER BROTHER, ARTHUR SERVED IN THE ROYAL AIR FORCE DURING WW1.
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