LIEUT E G C CLOWES
Location: Hospital of St Cross, Winchester, SO23 9SD
Details on cross (Text content of cross):
G.R.U
LIEUT E G C CLOWES
18.2.15
Text type (e.g. hand-written, GRU tags, carved): GRU TAGS
Other information
Mounting to wall: Mounted to wooden door
Detailing: Plain wooden cross
Evidence of use in field (earth marking, cracking, staining, shrinkage): Staining to base
Finish (varnish, paint, oiled, unfinished etc): Unfinished
Condition (cracked, paint peeling, woodwork, damage etc): Worn
Notes and observations:
Cross is accompanied by a plaque which states
“In loving memory of Charles George Edric Clowes
Lieutenant King’s Royal Rifles
Born in this parish Feb.28.1892
and baptised in this church.
He fell in action near Ypres Feb.15.1915
& is laid to rest in Bailleul Cemetery.
He died the noblest death a man may die
Fighting for God and right and liberty
And such a death is immortality”
Capt. Russell LCB
Details on cross (Text content of cross):
In memory of
Capt. Russell LCB 12th Rifle Brigade
Killed in Action
7 10 16
Text type (e.g. hand-written, GRU tags, carved): Stencilled in black paint
Other information
Mounting to wall: mounted to stone wall
Detailing: GRU tag at top of cross
Finish (varnish, paint, oiled, unfinished etc): unfinished
Condition (cracked, paint peeling, woodwork, damage etc): worn
Notes and observations:
Captain Russell is buried at Bancourt British Cemetery (V.E 19) Only son of Maj. and Mrs. Leonard Russell, of St. Cross Mede, Winchester, he was 21 when he was killed.
A brief history of his battalion in WW1 is as follows.
12th (Service) Battalion
Sept 1914 Formed at Winchester as part of the Second New Army (K2) and moved to Blackdown to join the 60th Brigade of the 20th Division and then moved to Witley, and on to Larkhill.
21.07.1915 Mobilised for war and landed at Boulogne and engaged in various action on the Western front including;
During 1916
Battle of Loos, attack near Montauban,
During 1917
The Cambrai Operations.
During 1918
Battle of the Somme and captured the village of Mezieres.
11.11.1918 Ended the war in France, Bettignies north of Maubeuge.
Survey and photographs courtesy of Bob Severs
Date of Survey – August 2017
Additional research by Alison Treacy
