Name
Lionel Pilleau Clay
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
18/02/1918
38
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TINCOURT NEW BRITISH CEMETERY
V. B. 5.
France
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Much Hadham memorials
Pre War
Born in 1880 and baptised on 8 Apr 1880 in Holy Trinity, Halifax, York son of John William and Alice Caroline Pilleau Clay. Educated at Harrow School (1894-99, Head of School 1898) and Balliol College, Oxford (BA 1905), he became a barrister and then Parliamentary Private Secretary to Lord Somerleyton. He married Mary Winifred Muriel Walker in 1910 in Barrow-upon-Soar, Leicestershire and they lived at Northleys, Much Hadham, Hertfordshire. He had a son and two daughters.
Wartime Service
He joined the Yorkshire Dragoons in 1906 but transferred to the Training Reserve in 1913. On the outbreak of war he rejoined his Regiment and entered France in Jul 1915 and was made Court Martial Officer. He was killed by a bomb.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox
