Second Lieutenant Robert Clements

Second Lieutenant Robert Cooper Clements, 1st/4th Territorial ) Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. He was killed in action in France on 8th August 1918, aged 35 and is buried in Aubigny Communal Cemetery Extension, near Arras, France. He was the son of Robert Agnes Clements and the husband of Minnie Clements of 1 Wilson’s Terrace, Spittal. He fell during the capture of Outersteene and his Headstone is inscribed ” I Go On A Great and Glorious Mission”. After the War an impressive Memorial was raised to commemorate the 50th ( Northumbrian ) Division of which the Battalion was part. It was erected near the village of Weiltje in the Ypres Salient where on the 26th April 1915 the Division had fought its first action of the War only days after landing on the Continent.

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