Name
Charles Reginald Clemo
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
14/08/1917
22
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Shipwright 2nd Class
M/16543
Royal Navy
H.M.S. “Prize”
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
PLYMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL
Panel 22
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath
Pre War
Born on 16 Aug 1895 at St Erith, Cornwall son of Charles and Elizabeth H. T. Clemo later of Duke Street Inn, Duke Street, Devonport. Member of staff, Haileybury College.
Wartime Service
The Prize was a three-masted schooner “Else” captured from the Germans on 4 Aug 1914, the first day of war, and used as a Q-ship or decoy ship thereafter. After a damaging engagement with submarine U-93 in April 1917 she was repaired and returned to decoy work. She was finally sunk with all hands by UB-48 Northwest of Ireland.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Silent Warriors Volume Two (The History Press), Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour
