Clifford George Dodd Spurgeon
A Gunner with V 55th Heavy Trench Mortar Battery, Clifford died on 7th of May 1917 at the age of 21.
Clifford was born at Lowestoft in 1896, a son of Evelyn Annie Spurgeon. He was baptised at Saint Margaret's Church, Lowestoft, on 17 April 1896 and his family lived at 57 Edinburgh Road, Lowestoft. (His mother married George Dodd in 1897: she died in 1904). In 1901 he lived with his grandparents, John and Elizabeth Spurgeon, at 57 Edinburgh Road. In 1911 he lived with his widowed grandmother, Elizabeth Spurgeon, and his aunt Florence Spurgeon, at 105 Saint Margaret's Road, Lowestoft, and Clifford worked as a shop assistant in a confectionary shop. Later his grandmother, and aunt, lived at 23 Saint Peter's Street, Lowestoft.
Clifford volunteered and enlisted in the Army at Lowestoft. He joined the Royal Field Artillery, service number 446, and arrived in France on 18 November 1915. Later he was renumbered 895137. Clifford served with 55th Divisional Ammunition Column attached V/55th Heavy Trench Mortar Battery, part of the 55th Division.
The Battery War Diary for 7 May 1917 has:
D.T. M.O'p Headquarters (at) Soap Works were shelled as also were the new billets in course of erection.
Casualties: 1 O.R. killed; 2 O.R. died of wounds; 4 O.R. wounded.
Clifford was killed in action on 7 May.
Clifford's aunt Florence, and uncle, George Forder, both died in an air raid in 1941.
Clifford Spurgeon
23
St Peters Street
Lowestoft
United Kingdom
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