Clement+B++++Furmston

Furmston, Clement Barrington, 2nd Lieutenant, 154th Bn Machine Gun Corps Disembarked France 14/11/1915 as R/2691 21st Bn Royal Fusiliers. From 1/1/1916 perhaps" attached" to 8th Durham Light Infantry. Commissioned 4/9/1916 Born Mansfield ca 1895 Son of the Late Revd Samuel C and Susan E Furmston. (Samuel was Vicar of St Werbugh's, Blackwell's Parish Church from 1899 -1916) Killed in Action 9/4/1917 Buried at Roclincourt Military Cemetery, France

1911 Census Pupil 16years old at St John's Foundation School For The Sons Of Poor Clergy Of The Church Of England, Epsom Road, Leatherhead, Surrey At home in the Vicarage at Blackwell were his father Samuel Chambers Furmston, and sisters Olive and Amy and a servant Mabel Blount. His mother Susan Emma is visiting her sister in Walton Hertfordshire; the whereabouts of brother Wilfred Louis is unknown but he also goes on to serve with the Royal Fusiliers.


 * Back to Memorial **