Name
Gerald Edward Clayton
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
02/09/1915
35
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
Royal Marines
R.N. Div.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LLANBEDROG CEMETERY
N.C. 382.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Hertingfordbury memorials
Pre War
Gerald was the only son of Ralph Cririe Clayton and his wife Caroline (née Crofton), born in Liverpool on the 27th of December 1879.
He was educated at Liverpool College and Worcester College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. and M.A. and was called to the Bar (Inner Temple) in 1904. He married Ione Penarwel (daughter of Major Oscar William de Satgé de Thoren) on the 28th of April 1908 and they had three children: Ralph Dominic de Satgé (born 18th of February 1909), Aymar Sinclair Joseph de Satgé ( born 6th of July 1912), and Eveline Mary Alice de Satgé (born 26th of May 1910, died 10th of June 1910).
He was a Lieutenant in the Army Motor Service for three years before this corps was disbanded in December 1913.
Gerald volunteered as a Despatch Rider, with his own car, after the declaration of was in August 1914.
Wartime Service
He was given a commission in the Royal Naval Division on the 24th of September 1914 and was sent to France and Belgium respectively, and was in the retreat from Antwerp in October 1914, his car being among the last to leave the city.
Upon return to England with the Naval Brigade he was stationed at Crystal Palace, training the Naval Reserves. He contracted epidemic cerebro-spinal meningitis in February 1915, from which he died at The Little Manor, Hertingfordbury on the 2nd of September.
His name and picture appear in De Ruvigny’s Roll of Honour.
Acknowledgments
Derry Warners
Jonty Wild
